Hello All,

At the powershell prompt I type these commands and receive this output as below:

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PS H:\> $PathToXmlDoc ="c:\codesets.xml"

PS H:\> [xml] $XMLDoc = (Get-Content $PathToXmlDoc )

PS H:\> $XMLDoc

codesets

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codesets

PS H:\> $XMLDoc.codesets

previous   :  previous

finalnsr     :  finalnsr

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The output is as expectied

When I add these command to a ps1 script the output is black, and no error messages either.

Please help!

Thanks

Anton

Incidentally, the parentheses are not required in line #2.  I see nothing inherently wrong in your code, though.  Works for me.  Perhaps run it with debug and/or verbose on.  Hmm, not too many good debugging articles on the net yet...I'd grab PowerShell Plus, PowerGUI, Admin Script Editor, PrimalScript, one of those sorts of tools which have some debugging tools built-in.

Would not hurt to read the help for start-psdebug.

Without seeing you actual script it's hard to see what could be the culprit. Having said that I would start with about_scopes...

PS H:\> $XMLDoc

is actually running...

PS H:\> $XMLDoc | out-default

Out-default targets the current scope. 

Remember scopes  Functions/scripts run under child scopes.  So even though the above is running, its not running under you console scope. Try putting a write-host, or write-verbose in your script to verify that the data is behaving it self.  Write-host always targets your console so the data will get back to you.

-Glenn

Feel free to criticize / correct me if I'm way off on this.  I'm only half way through Bruce's book :)