# Display an xml attribute value using xml filter

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-an-xml-attribute-value-using-xml-filter/38104>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [December 29, 2015, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-an-xml-attribute-value-using-xml-filter/38104 "2015-12-29T11:56:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sudeesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71e660/32.png) [@Sudeesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sudeesh)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2015, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-an-xml-attribute-value-using-xml-filter/38104/1 "2015-12-29T11:56:25Z")

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Here is the xml file, i want to print the attribute value name from class tag. And my conf file is below

input {  
file {  
path=\>["C:/logstash-2.1.1/Data/TestNG\_Linear2.xml"]  
start\_position =\>"beginning"  
type =\>suitefile  
}  
}

filter  
{  
multiline {  
pattern =\> "suite "  
what =\> "previous"  
negate =\> "true"  
}  
xml  
{  
source =\> "message"  
store\_xml =\> false  
add\_tag =\> "xml"  
remove\_namespaces =\> "true"

```
xpath =>["/suite/test/classes/class/name/text()","time"]

```

}  
mutate {  
add\_field =\> ["NameIndexed", "%{Name}"]  
}

}

output {  
stdout {}  
}

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2015, 11:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-an-xml-attribute-value-using-xml-filter/38104/2 "2015-12-29T23:16:14Z")

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> [@Sudeesh](#):
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> Here is the xml file

Where?

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**Author:** ![Sudeesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71e660/32.png) [@Sudeesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sudeesh)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2015, 6:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-an-xml-attribute-value-using-xml-filter/38104/4 "2015-12-30T06:43:41Z")

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2015, 8:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-an-xml-attribute-value-using-xml-filter/38104/6 "2015-12-30T08:40:42Z")

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You may want to format that with code tags so it displays properly 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 5:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-an-xml-attribute-value-using-xml-filter/38104/7 "2017-07-06T05:17:09Z")

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