# 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, 8:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-xml-file-using-logstash/255113/7 "2020-11-11T20:46:24Z")

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Use

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

If you then need to move all the fields to the top level use a ruby filter, like [this](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-dynamically-move-nested-key-value-to-root-level/180006/2).

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