Powershell Script not outputting data into File outside of ISE - windows

Question

I understand that other people have had similar questions but none are like this. I made a ps1 script to convert an a file of XML objects into a CSV file of rows representing some of that data. Last night I was able to run the batch file and convert files, but this morning it saves an empty CSV file when I run from batch but it works fine when I run it in Powershell ISE.
I run it from a batch file with -STA mode to enable it to open the dialog windows:
powershell -sta C:\Users\*******\Downloads\JiraXMLtoCSV.ps1
And here is the script(it was tough to make this code block lol excuse the '}'):
# This function will open a file-picker for the user to select their Jira XML Export
Function Get-JiraXMLFile(){
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.windows.forms") | Out-Null;
$OpenFileDialog = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.OpenFileDialog;
$OpenFileDialog.initialDirectory = Get-Location;
$OpenFileDialog.filter = "XML files (*.xml)|*.xml";
$OpenFileDialog.ShowDialog() | Out-Null;
$OpenFileDialog.filename;
$OpenFileDialog.ShowHelp = $true;
}
# This function will open the file save dialong to allow the user to choose location and name of the converted XML-to-CSV file
Function Get-SaveFile(){
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.windows.forms") | Out-Null;
$SaveFileDialog = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.SaveFileDialog;
$SaveFileDialog.initialDirectory = Get-Location;
$SaveFileDialog.filter = "CSV files (*.csv)|*.csv";
$SaveFileDialog.ShowDialog() | Out-Null;
$SaveFileDialog.filename;
$SaveFileDialog.ShowHelp = $true;
}
# Invoke the file-picker function and obtain input file
$inputFile = Get-JiraXMLFile;
#initialize list for items that will be extracted from XML Input File
$list = #();
# Loop through all the items in Jira XML export file
foreach ( $item in $XMLFile.rss.channel.item ) {
# Create a new hash object
$issue = #{};
# Gather wanted attributes
$issue.Key = $item.key.InnerXML;
$issue.StatusColor = $item.statusCategory.colorName;
$issue.Status = $item.status.InnerXML;
# Check for comments
if ( $item.comments ) {
# Record the comments with column name/header format as follows: comment #0 | comment #2|...
# Change this value to 1 if you want to see it start at comment #1 instead of comment #0
$incrementalCounter = 0;
# Loop through all comments on the issue
foreach ( $comment in $item.comments.comment ) {
$issue.("comment #"+$incrementalCounter) = $comment.InnerXML;
$incrementalCounter += 1;
}
}
#Create an object to be added to the list
$object = New-Object –TypeName PSObject –Prop $issue;
Write-Output $object;
# add this issue to the list to convert/export to CSV
$list += $object;
}
# Open File Saving window to choose file name and location for the new
$OutputFile = Get-SaveFile;
$list | Export-Csv -Path ($OutputFile) -NoTypeInformation;
And if you want some sample XML to help me learn what I am doing wrong:
<rss version="0.92">
<channel>
<title>XML Export</title>
<link>...</link>
<description>An XML representation of a search request</description>
<language>en-us</language>
<issue start="0" end="7" total="7"/>
<build-info>...</build-info>
<item>
<title>[AJT-46] another new story</title>
<project id="1652" key="AJT">Advanced Training</project>
<description/>
<environment/>
<key id="220774">AJT-46</key>
<status id="16615" iconUrl="https://website.com/" description="Desc text">To Do</status>
<statusCategory id="2" key="new" colorName="gray"/>
<labels></labels>
<created>Tue, 5 Jun 2018 11:25:38 -0400</created>
<updated>Tue, 5 Jun 2018 11:29:00 -0400</updated>
<due/>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
It was working last night and now it is not working when I showed up this morning so nothing changed that I know of, I didn't reboot either. It still works in the Powershell ISE which is fine but I need the batch file method for the person I am making it for. Any help, advice, etc. is appreciated! Thanks

Answer 1

Changes I made and it works now, double newline separated:
# Invoke the file-picker function and obtain input file
[Xml]$inputFile = Get-JiraXMLFile;
# Grab all the items we exported, ignore the header info
if ( $inputFile ) {
#$XmlComments = Select-Xml "//comment()" -Xml $inputFile;
#$inputFile.RemoveChild($XmlComments);
$items = Select-Xml "//rss/channel/item" -Xml $inputFile;
}
# Iterate over items and grab important info to be put into CSV format
foreach ( $item in $items ){
# Create a new hash object
$issue = #{};
# Gather wanted attributes
if( $item.Node.key){
$issue.Key = $item.Node.key.InnerXML;
}