What exception type should be used in Powershell to catch a XML parse error due to invalid characters?

Question

Line 2 in the script below generates -

\"Cannot convert value \"System.Object[]\" to type \"System.Xml.XmlDocument\". Error: \"\'→\', hexadecimal va

Answer 1

Here is a way to discover yourself the full type name of an Exception, the result here gives System.Management.Automation.ArgumentTransformationMetadataException as given by @Adrian Wright.

Clear-Host
try {
    [xml]$xml = Get-Content "c:\Temp\1.cs" # line 2
}
catch {
    # Discovering the full type name of an exception
    Write-Host $_.Exception.gettype().fullName
    Write-Host $_.Exception.message
}