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Summary

We need to document ConvertTo-CliXml and ConvertFrom-CliXml cmdlets. These cmdlets were requested so we can serialize/deserialize CliXML from memory without needing to read/write from file system,

Details

Parameter Sets

ConvertTo-CliXml [-InputObject] <psobject> [-Depth <int>] [<CommonParameters>]

ConvertFrom-CliXml [-InputObject] <string> [<CommonParameters>]

Example 1

Serialize to CLI XML string and deserialize to CLI XML object in memory,

> $cliXmlString = [pscustomobject]@{'hello' = 1} | ConvertTo-CliXML
> $cliXmlString
<Objs Version="1.1.0.1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/powershell/2004/04">
  <Obj RefId="0">
    <TN RefId="0">
      <T>System.Management.Automation.PSCustomObject</T>
      <T>System.Object</T>
    </TN>
    <MS>
      <I32 N="hello">1</I32>
    </MS>
  </Obj>
</Objs>
> $cliXmlString | ConvertFrom-CliXml

hello
-----
    1

Articles

• reference/7.4/Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility/ConvertTo-CliXml.md
• reference/7.4/Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility/ConvertFrom-CliXml.md

Related Source Pull Requests

• Add ConvertTo-CliXml and ConvertFrom-CliXml cmdlets PowerShell/PowerShell#21063

Related Source Issues

• Export-CliXml shouldn't require writing to a file PowerShell/PowerShell#3898