They won't always have the same format or be under the same node. I do a bit of work with XML and other objects in PowerShell. Wrote ConvertTo-FlatObject to simplify exploring these. You could ...

Now let's say you want to read this XML file with PowerShell. To do this, I'll use the [xml] type accelerator and Get-Content to pull out all the text and convert it to XML. Figure 1. Now I'd like to ...