Convert XML to PSObject

You can do this pretty easily with XPath. Although PowerShell usually makes working with XML pretty simple, in this case I think the format using strictly PowerShell syntax would be pretty gross.

filter XmlProperty([String]$Property) {    $_.SelectSingleNode("/Objects/Object/Property[@Name='$Property']").InnerText}$Name = $b | Xmlproperty Name$Server = $b | XmlProperty Server# etc...

EDIT: To generically do this for an XML document that contains one or more Object elements, you can do something like this:

function ConvertFrom-Xml($XML) {    foreach ($Object in @($XML.Objects.Object)) {        $PSObject = New-Object PSObject        foreach ($Property in @($Object.Property)) {            $PSObject | Add-Member NoteProperty $Property.Name $Property.InnerText        }        $PSObject    }}ConvertFrom-Xml $b

My variant with unlimited depth.

See examples.

function ConvertFrom-Xml {<#.SYNOPSIS    Converts XML object to PSObject representation for further ConvertTo-Json transformation.EXAMPLE    # JSON->XML    $xml = ConvertTo-Xml (get-content 1.json | ConvertFrom-Json) -Depth 4 -NoTypeInformation -as String.EXAMPLE    # XML->JSON    ConvertFrom-Xml ([xml]($xml)).Objects.Object | ConvertTo-Json#>    param([System.Xml.XmlElement]$Object)    if (($Object -ne $null) -and ($Object.Property -ne $null)) {        $PSObject = New-Object PSObject        foreach ($Property in @($Object.Property)) {            if ($Property.Property.Name -like 'Property') {                $PSObject | Add-Member NoteProperty $Property.Name ($Property.Property | % {ConvertFrom-Xml $_})            } else {                if ($Property.'#text' -ne $null) {                    $PSObject | Add-Member NoteProperty $Property.Name $Property.'#text'                } else {                    if ($Property.Name -ne $null) {                        $PSObject | Add-Member NoteProperty $Property.Name (ConvertFrom-Xml $Property)                    }                }            }         }           $PSObject    }}

I usually parse xml to hash tables but using the convertto function I grabbed from here I adapted the function to convert to pscustom objects

function xmlNodeToPsCustomObject ($node){    $hash = @{}    foreach($attribute in $node.attributes){        $hash.$($attribute.name) = $attribute.Value    }    $childNodesList = ($node.childnodes | ?{$_ -ne $null}).LocalName    foreach($childnode in ($node.childnodes | ?{$_ -ne $null})){        if(($childNodesList | ?{$_ -eq $childnode.LocalName}).count -gt 1){            if(!($hash.$($childnode.LocalName))){                $hash.$($childnode.LocalName) += @()            }            if ($childnode.'#text' -ne $null) {                $hash.$($childnode.LocalName) += $childnode.'#text'            }            $hash.$($childnode.LocalName) += xmlNodeToPsCustomObject($childnode)        }else{            if ($childnode.'#text' -ne $null) {                $hash.$($childnode.LocalName) = $childnode.'#text'            }else{                $hash.$($childnode.LocalName) = xmlNodeToPsCustomObject($childnode)            }        }       }    return $hash | ConvertTo-PsCustomObjectFromHashtable}function ConvertTo-PsCustomObjectFromHashtable {     param (         [Parameter(              Position = 0,               Mandatory = $true,               ValueFromPipeline = $true,              ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = $true          )] [object[]]$hashtable     );     begin { $i = 0; }     process {         foreach ($myHashtable in $hashtable) {             if ($myHashtable.GetType().Name -eq 'hashtable') {                 $output = New-Object -TypeName PsObject;                 Add-Member -InputObject $output -MemberType ScriptMethod -Name AddNote -Value {                      Add-Member -InputObject $this -MemberType NoteProperty -Name $args[0] -Value $args[1];                 };                 $myHashtable.Keys | Sort-Object | % {                      $output.AddNote($_, $myHashtable.$_);                  }                 $output            } else {                 Write-Warning "Index $i is not of type [hashtable]";             }            $i += 1;          }    } }