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Powershell: how to use a table format with XML data

<tickets type="array">
    <ticket>
        <assigned-user-id type="integer">123</assigned-user-id>
        <closed type="boolean">true</closed>
        <creator-id type="integer">177522</creator-id>
        <number type="integer">306</number>
        <state>resolved</state>
        <tag nil="true"/>
        <title>
        title text 1
        </title>
        <updated-at type="datetime">2012-03-14T13:13:11+11:00</updated-at>
        <user-id type="integer">96438</user-id>
        <version type="integer">3</version>
        <user-name>Username</user-name>
    </ticket>
</tickets>

I am new to Powershell and asking a question about xml and format-table. The above xml file. If I show the script below to display tickets in the table, the value "number", "closed" cannot be shown

$t = [xml](new-object system.net.webclient).downloadstring($xmlfilepath)
$t.tickets.ticket | Format-Table -Property title, state, user-name, url, number, closed

Return:

title            state       user-name       number       closed                                      
-----            -----       ---------       ------       ------                                
title text 1     resolved    Username        number       closed   
title text 2     resolved    Username        number       closed

Is the only way to use foreachand selectSingleNode("ticket").get_InnerXml()to get all values?

Thank.

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If you notice that these nodes have attributes, you will need to go to the node data. try the following:

$t.tickets.ticket | Format-Table -AutoSize -Property title, state, user-name, url,
@{Label="number"; Expression={$_.number."#text"}},
@{Label="closed"; Expression={$_.closed."#text"}}
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