Working with HTML, XML, and JSON
PowerShell has several commands for working with the HTML, XML, and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) formats. These commands, combined with some of the available .NET classes, provide a rich set of tools for creating or modifying these formats.
HTML is often used for generating user-consumable reports.
PowerShell includes the ConvertTo-Html
command, which can generate HTML content.
The PSWriteHtml
module can be used to create more complex HTML documents. The module is available in the PowerShell Gallery. PSWriteHtml
uses a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) to describe HTML documents in PowerShell.
What is a Domain-Specific Language?
A Domain-Specific Language or DSL is a specialized language used to describe something, in this case, an HTML document. Keywords are used to describe individual elements of the document. In this case, those keywords are hierarchically arranged.
Other DSLs frequently used in PowerShell include...