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Export-FormatData XML output #6699
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In #6691 we made that Export-FormatData returns pretty-printing XML output by default as requested in #6681.
Users may need a different output:
-AsXML - output [xml] object
-AsXMLString or -AsString - output compact XML string without formatting.
-Encoding - set encoding of output file .
And perhaps add option to output to pipe not file and -PassThru.
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BrucePay commentedon Apr 22, 2018
Exportcommands don't typically return data. PerhapsGet-FormatDatawould be better for returning an[xml]object? Just curious - why the request for compact XML ? Is the formatted stuff that much bigger? Adding-encodingto match, for exampleexport-csv, makes sense.iSazonov commentedon Apr 23, 2018
Mark Kraus (@markekraus) requested this in #6691.
markekraus commentedon Apr 23, 2018
For me, it's not so much about having a compression/compact option, but having a way to revert behavior. I'm not a big fan of changing output behavior in such a way that increases resource consumption without a way to revert the behavior if change was not fixing a broken behavior and implementing the previous behavior is simple enough.