{"id":1196,"date":"2014-06-10T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/06\/10\/powertip-validate-xml-document-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2014-06-10T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-validate-xml-document-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-validate-xml-document-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Validate XML Document with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Learn to use Windows PowerShell to validate that an XML document is well formed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to test that anXML document is well formed?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>Test-XML<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet from the PSCX:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">test-xml C:\\fso\\users.xml<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:60px\"><b>Note&nbsp;<\/b>&nbsp;PSCX is a community-produced project that is available for free from&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/pscx.codeplex.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">CodePlex<\/a>. <br \/>I have written quite a bit about downloading, installing, and using this great resource. <br \/>For more information, see&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/social.technet.microsoft.com\/Search\/en-US?query=pscx&amp;rn=Hey,%20Scripting%20Guy!%20Blog&amp;rq=site:blogs.technet.com\/b\/heyscriptingguy\/&amp;beta=0&amp;ac=4\" target=\"_blank\">this collection of Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog posts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn to use Windows PowerShell to validate that an XML document is well formed. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to test that anXML document is well formed? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Test-XML&nbsp;cmdlet from the PSCX: test-xml C:\\fso\\users.xml Note&nbsp;&nbsp;PSCX is a community-produced project that is available for free from&nbsp;CodePlex. I have written quite a bit about downloading, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-1196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn to use Windows PowerShell to validate that an XML document is well formed. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to test that anXML document is well formed? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Test-XML&nbsp;cmdlet from the PSCX: test-xml C:\\fso\\users.xml Note&nbsp;&nbsp;PSCX is a community-produced project that is available for free from&nbsp;CodePlex. I have written quite a bit about downloading, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}