[XML] Attribute problem

Question

Hi,
I have an array in $messagebody that is generated from a query of a simple database with 5 rows.  I have the data converted to XML and I'm looking to compare the values in a column to a set variable as follows.  
##Return all of the rows and pipe it into the ConvertTo-HTML cmdlet, and then pipe that into our output file
$messagebody = $dataSet.Tables | select -Expand Rows | select-object  -property Service, Manufactureer, StartDate, "Contract Length", AccountNumber, Renewed, "Invoice Frequency", Cancelled, "Support Group", "Contact Name",
"Other Information", Expired, EndDate | ConvertTo-HTML -fragment
$threshhold = get-date
#$threshhold=10
$xml=[xml]$messagebody
$rows=$xml.table.selectNodes('//tr')
for($i=1;$i -lt $rows.count; $i++){
    $value=$rows.Item($i).lastchild.'#text'
write-host $value
    #if($value.Length -gt 0 -and [int]$value -lt $threshhold){
    if([datetime]$value -lt $threshhold){
       Write-Host "Candidate found - setting color to red at $value" -fore green
       $attr=$xml.CreateAttribute('style')
       $attr.Value='background-color: red;'
       [void]$rows.Item($i).Attributes.Append($attr)
$html=$xml.OuterXml|Out-String
$style='<style type=text/css>#diskTbl { background-color: blue; }</style>'
$body=ConvertTo-Html -head $style -body $html -Title "Disk Usage Report"|Out-String
$body | out-file c:\test\colour.html
The problem I have is with this part -  $value=$rows.Item($i).lastchild.'#text'.  It works but only because I have moved the column I need to the lastchild.  This works but I need to be able to query values of other columsn but need the xml
node hieracy
Anyone have any pointers??
James
Alter De Ruine

Answer 1

My guerss is that this is not working the way you need it to:
$messagebody = $dataSet.Tables |
select -Expand Rows |
select Service, Manufacturer,StartDate,'Contract Length',
AccountNumber, Renewed, 'Invoice Frequency',Cancelled,
'Support Group', 'Contact Name', 'Other Information',
Expired, EndDate |
ConvertTo-HTML -fragment
It probably should be:
$messagebody = $dataSet.Tables[0] |
select Service, Manufacturer,StartDate,'Contract Length',
AccountNumber, Renewed, 'Invoice Frequency',Cancelled,
'Support Group', 'Contact Name', 'Other Information',
Expired, EndDate |
ConvertTo-HTML -fragment
This should prevent an extra wrapper of HTML.
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