community / community.windows / 2.2.0 / module / win_xml Manages XML file content on Windows hosts Authors: Richard Levenberg (@richardcs), Jon Hawkesworth (@jhawkesworth)community.windows.win_xml (2.2.0) — module
Install with ansible-galaxy collection install community.windows:==2.2.0
collections: - name: community.windows version: 2.2.0
Manages XML nodes, attributes and text, using xpath to select which xml nodes need to be managed.
XML fragments, formatted as strings, are used to specify the desired state of a part or parts of XML files on remote Windows servers.
For non-Windows targets, use the M(community.general.xml) module instead.
- name: Apply our filter to Tomcat web.xml community.windows.win_xml: path: C:\apache-tomcat\webapps\myapp\WEB-INF\web.xml fragment: '<filter><filter-name>MyFilter</filter-name><filter-class>com.example.MyFilter</filter-class></filter>' xpath: '/*'
- name: Apply sslEnabledProtocols to Tomcat's server.xml community.windows.win_xml: path: C:\Tomcat\conf\server.xml xpath: '//Server/Service[@name="Catalina"]/Connector[@port="9443"]' attribute: 'sslEnabledProtocols' fragment: 'TLSv1,TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2' type: attribute
- name: remove debug configuration nodes from nlog.conf community.windows.win_xml: path: C:\IISApplication\nlog.conf xpath: /nlog/rules/logger[@name="debug"]/descendant::* state: absent
- name: count configured connectors in Tomcat's server.xml community.windows.win_xml: path: C:\Tomcat\conf\server.xml xpath: //Server/Service/Connector count: yes register: connector_count
- name: show connector count debug: msg="Connector count is {{connector_count.count}}"
- name: ensure all lang=en attributes to lang=nl community.windows.win_xml: path: C:\Data\Books.xml xpath: //@[lang="en"] attribute: lang fragment: nl type: attribute
path: aliases: - dest - file description: - Path to the file to operate on. required: true type: path type: choices: - attribute - element - text default: element description: - The type of XML node you are working with. type: str count: default: false description: - When set to C(yes), return the number of nodes matched by I(xpath). type: bool state: choices: - present - absent default: present description: - Set or remove the nodes (or attributes) matched by I(xpath). type: str xpath: description: - Xpath to select the node or nodes to operate on. required: true type: str backup: default: false description: - Determine whether a backup should be created. - When set to C(yes), create a backup file including the timestamp information so you can get the original file back if you somehow clobbered it incorrectly. type: bool fragment: aliases: - xmlstring description: - The string representation of the XML fragment expected at xpath. Since ansible 2.9 not required when I(state=absent), or when I(count=yes). required: false type: str attribute: description: - The attribute name if the type is 'attribute'. - Required if C(type=attribute). type: str
backup_file: description: Name of the backup file that was created. returned: if backup=yes sample: C:\Path\To\File.txt.11540.20150212-220915.bak type: str count: description: Number of nodes matched by xpath. returned: if count=yes sample: 33 type: int err: description: XML comparison exceptions. returned: always, for type element and -vvv or more sample: attribute mismatch for actual=string type: list msg: description: What was done. returned: always sample: xml added type: str