Rename xml files with few details from inside the xml file

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Posted on by Ramoniq

Hi!

I am new in working with Power automate.

Would you help me with renaming xml files with concatenate of free text and few details from inside the xml file.

Is there any tutorial for that?

Thx

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lbendlin 8,726 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Read anything you can about xpath .
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I don't think there is a tutorial, but there are some valuable references about reading XML files here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/desktop-flows/actions-reference/xml

Also, try watching some YouTube tutorials on reading XML in Power Automate Desktop.

Then, if you still can't figure it out, provide a sample XML here and tell us which values you want, and we can help you.

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I guess my problem is finding the right XPath query.
Here is an exemple opened with Visual Studio Code :
The lime marked information is what I want to bring in the name of XML file.
The tutorials I found have xml files with simple structure and I have tried similar approaches but no success.
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Somewhere around AuditFile/Header/Company/RegistrationNumber.

Would be better if you could provide the actual XML instead of a screenshot.
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Since your file includes namespaces, there's a special approach to reading it with PAD. You need to use the local-name() function in your XPath. For example, to get the RegistrationNumber, you could use the following:

//*[local-name()='RegistrationNumber']/text()

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