Using Powershell to read XML

Question

I have a weird XML doc where the data is contained in the node in placed.
An example. 
<computers><computerData ip-Dir="127.0.0.1" name ="eth01"/></computers>
What I want to do is get the IP address so I can edit it later. Here is the code I am using. 
$path = C:\temp\temp.xml
$xdoc = New-Object -TypeName XML
$xdoc.Load($path)
[xml]XMLConfig = Get-Content -path $path
$xdoc."computers"."computerData" | Select-Object -Property "ip-Dir"
This doesn't work though. Just gives me "ip-dir : "
Any thoughts?

Answer 1

You can also do this but it may fail on complex documents:
PS C:\scripts> $xml.computers.computerData
ip-Dir name
127.0.0.1 eth01
127.0.0.2 eth02
127.0.0.3 eth03
127.0.0.4 eth01
PS C:\scripts> $xml.computers.computerData.Name
eth01
eth02
eth03
eth01
PS C:\scripts> $xml.computers.computerData[2]
ip-Dir name
127.0.0.3 eth03
PS C:\scripts> $xml.computers.computerData[2].'ip-Dir'
127.0.0.3
You may also have to add namespace support.
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