Selecting attributes in xml using xpath in powershell

Question

I am trying to use powershell and XPath to select the name attribute shown in the below xml example.

     $xml_peoples= $file.SelectNodes("//people") 
     foreach ($person in $xml_peoples){
            echo $person.attributes
            #echo $person.attributes.name
     }

Above is the code im running to try and get the name, but it doesn't seem to work. Any suggestions?

<peoples>
    <person name='James'>
        <device>
            <id>james1</id>
            <ip>192.192.192.192</ip>
        </device>
    </person>
</peoples>

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

These two lines should suffice:

[xml]$xml = Get-Content 'C:\path\to\your.xml'
$xml.selectNodes('//person') | select Name