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Support the .AppInstaller file format. #4711

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  1. Request

    As winget-pkgs/issues/166364#issuecomment-2273528233 explains (paraphrased):

    *.appinstaller [...] is currently not supported by winget.exe, since it can't be installed unattendedly.

  2. Prerequisites

    1. Reported here, rather than at winget-pkgs, per winget-pkgs/issues/174#issuecomment-629701649.

    2. issues?q=sort%3Aupdated-desc+is%3Aissue+appinstaller+support returned 0 duplicate results on 2024-08-07.

Proposed technical implementation details

Per #issuecomment-2885088781, parse the XML to acquire the URI of the linked MSIX package.

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