# How to avoid storing original xml when using the XML filter
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-avoid-storing-original-xml-when-using-the-xml-filter/154091
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [October 26, 2018, 4:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-avoid-storing-original-xml-when-using-the-xml-filter/154091 "2018-10-26T04:45:43Z")
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### Author:  [@anp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anp)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2018, 4:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-avoid-storing-original-xml-when-using-the-xml-filter/154091/1 "2018-10-26T04:45:43Z")
I have defined this XML filter:
xml {
source =\> "xml\_descriptors"
target =\> "json\_descriptors"
force\_array =\> false
}
With the above my ES index contains both the original xml\_descriptors (as XML) and the transformed json\_descriptors (as JSON).
If I set store\_xml =\> false then nothing gets stored in the index.
How can I just store json\_descriptors and completely omit xml\_descriptors from the index?
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### Author:  [@balumurari1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/balumurari1)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2018, 5:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-avoid-storing-original-xml-when-using-the-xml-filter/154091/2 "2018-10-26T05:46:25Z")
you can use below code, hope this works,
mutate {
remove\_field =\> ["xml\_descriptors"]
}
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 5:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-avoid-storing-original-xml-when-using-the-xml-filter/154091/3 "2018-11-23T05:46:32Z")
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