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Default Export-FormatData to pretty-printing or add an option #6681
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Related: #6680
One use case for Export-FormatData - even though about_Format.ps1xml doesn't currently mention it - is to use existing formatting definitions as a starting point for creating new ones.
To that end, outputting pretty-printed XML would be much more convenient - currently, a single-line XML string is output.
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If changing the existing behavior is not a backward-compatibility concern:
- Simply output pretty-printed XML by default (it will consume more space, however)
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Otherwise:
- Introduce a switch such as
-Format(or, to follow the - inverted - logic ofConvertTo-Json, perhaps-Uncompress?) that results in pretty-printed output.
- Introduce a switch such as
Environment data
Written as of:
PowerShell Core v6.0.2
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BrucePay commentedon Apr 20, 2018
Michael Klement (@mklement0) This sounds like a good thing to do. (I would have thought we were already doing it actually.) Anyway, as long as the result is valid XML, simply pretty-printing it should fall within acceptable changes.
SteveL-MSFT commentedon Apr 20, 2018
Pretty printed xml is well-formed and valid, so there's no functional impact. Seems like a good idea and should be a small change.