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Export-Clixml exports members of a collection, not the collection itself by BigBadJogr

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Type: Bug
ID: 780578
Opened: 3/4/2013 6:43:11 AM
Access Restriction: Public
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When exporting an arraylist via Export-Clixml, the resulting xml file only contains the description of members of the arraylist. The collection type is lost during exportation.
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How often does this happen?
Always Happens

Have you seen this problem before in this product?

Yes, this happens in previous released versions
Reproduction Steps
$coll = new-object System.collections.arraylist
$null = $coll.add("firstElement")
$coll | export-clixml $home\test.xml
$coll = import-clixml $home\test.xml
$null = $coll.add("secondElement")
# Causes the following exception:
Method invocation failed because [System.String] doesn't contain a method
named 'add'.
# $coll.gettype() returns String
Expected Results
The imported object should still be a collection.
$coll.add("secondElement") should succeed.
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