How To: Validate an XML web.config Schema with PowerShell

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Overview

This article explains how to quickly check whether an XML file, such as a SecureAuth Identity Platform web.config, is well-formed, using a single PowerShell command.

1. Open PowerShell.
2. Run the following, replacing the path with the file to check:

[xml](Get-Content -Path "D:\Secureauth\SecureAuth0\web.config" -Raw)

If the file is well-formed, PowerShell parses it and returns its top-level XML properties, as shown above. If the file is not well-formed, PowerShell instead throws an XML parsing error describing where the problem is.

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