# Ingest xml file using Logstash

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-xml-file-using-logstash/255113>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [November 11, 2020, 6:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-xml-file-using-logstash/255113 "2020-11-11T18:34:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 8:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-xml-file-using-logstash/255113/4 "2020-11-11T20:00:09Z")

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If you want to consume the entire file as a single event then you can do something like [this](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/append-metadata-to-every-event-in-xml-file-being-ingested-to-elasticsearch/165914/2).

If your file contains multiple XML documents you must consume them separately. If they all start with `<control` then your multiline codec should be

```
codec => multiline {
    pattern=>"^<control"
    negate => "true"
    what => "previous"
    auto_flush_interval => 1
    max_lines => 3000
}

```

If you want to parse the entire message then just use

```
xml { source => "message" store_xml => true target => "theXML" }

```

If you need specific elements from the document you can use the xpath option instead of setting store\_xml.

The xml filter typically just works. The hard part is tweaking the multiline codec so that each event contains a complete XML document.

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