Create an XML-based representation of one or more PowerShell objects.
Syntax ConvertTo-XML [-InputObject] psobject [-As {String | Stream | Document} ] [-Depth int] [-NoTypeInformation] [CommonParameters] Key -As string Format as: a String (returns a single string),a Stream (returns an array of strings) or a Document (returns an XmlDocument) -CssUri Uri The Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) of the cascading style sheet The CSS URI is included as a style sheet link in the output. -inputObject psobject The object(s) to represent as XML. A variable that contains the object(s) or a command/expression that gets the object(s). When the -InputObject parameter is used to submit a collection of items, ConvertTo-XML receives one object that represents the collection. Because one object cannot be converted, ConvertTo-XML returns the entire collection unchanged. To convert multiple items, pipe them to ConvertTo-XML. This parameter is an implementation detail: its purpose is to enable input via the pipeline, and its direct use with arrays (collections) does not (yet) provide any useful functionality. -NoTypeInformation Omit the Type attribute from the object nodes. -Depth int The number of levels of contained objects to include. The default value is 1. For example, if an object’s properties also contain objects, specify a depth of 2 to include them. The default value can be overridden in Types.ps1xml CommonParameters: -Verbose, -Debug, -ErrorAction, -ErrorVariable, -WarningAction, -WarningVariable, -OutBuffer -OutVariable.
If you submit multiple objects, such as all of the services on a computer,ConvertTo-Xml will display the properties of the collection / array.
To display the individual objects, use the pipeline operator to pipe the objects to ConvertTo-Xml one at a time.
Export-Clixml is the same as ConvertTo-XML, except that it saves to a file.
Display the date as XML on the console :
PS C:\> Get-Date | ConvertTo-XML
Convert 3 levels of the system processes to XML:
PS C:\> Get-Process | ConvertTo-XML -depth 3
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Select-XML - Find text in an XML string or document