Get childnodes by index using powershell

Question

_{Saturday, August 4, 2012 9:35 AM}

I am trying to get the childnodes by index in the code below. I am doing that because I don't want to get all the childnodes

[System.Xml.XmlDocument]$doc = New-Object System.Xml.XmlDocument
        $doc.Load("C:\PowershellFiles\XmlLists.xml");
        $node = $doc.SelectSingleNode("//Migration/SiteCollections/SiteCollection")
        $siteUrl = $node.Attributes.GetNamedItem("SiteUrl").Value
        $webUrl = $node.Attributes.GetNamedItem("WebUrl").Value

        $site = Get-SPSite $siteUrl 
        $web = $site.OpenWeb($webUrl);

        if ($doc.DocumentElement -ne $null)
        {
            $root = $doc.SelectNodes("//Migration/DestinationLists");

            foreach ($node in $root)
            {
                if($node.HasChildNodes)
                {

                    for ($i=1; $i -le $node.ChildNodes.Count-2; $i++)
                    {

                        $attrvalue = $node.ChildNodes[$i].Attributes[0].Value

                            Write-Host $attrvalue

                    }
                }
            }
        }

However the code is giving me the following error:

Unable to index into an object of type System.Xml.XmlChildNodes.
At C:\PowershellFiles\ImportXmlToLists.ps1:36 char:55
+                         $attrvalue = $node.ChildNodes[ <<<< $i].Attributes[0].Value
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (1:Int32) [], RuntimeException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CannotIndex

Any idea how can I loop through the child nodes by index and get the attributes?

Thanks a lot for your help.

All replies (3)

_{Saturday, August 4, 2012 9:59 PM ✅Answered}

Try the Item() method:  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmlnodelist.item.aspx

You can also enumerate the members of the object by piping the object returned by $node.ChildNodes into Get-Member.

Jose R. MCP
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_{Monday, January 11, 2016 1:35 PM}

I have also thsi Problem, 2 Month ago the Script works fine, but now it stops,
than i used this Syntax:

$attrvalue = $node.ChildNodes.item($i).Attributes[0].Value

SchoWe

_{Monday, January 11, 2016 1:49 PM}

$xml.selectnodes('Migration/SiteCollections/SiteCollection')

Dan