# Logstash parsing XML failing on second and subsequent records

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-parsing-xml-failing-on-second-and-subsequent-records/308905>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [July 5, 2022, 12:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-parsing-xml-failing-on-second-and-subsequent-records/308905 "2022-07-05T12:20:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 5, 2022, 2:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-parsing-xml-failing-on-second-and-subsequent-records/308905/2 "2022-07-05T14:36:30Z")

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> [@Gerrard](#):
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> I'm struggling to understand why logstash is unable to process any records beyond the first in my XML log file.

I suspect you are hitting [this](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-stdout-output-shows-message/214079/11) issue. The file input reads lines, and splitting the data into lines happens before the codec (and encoding) is applied, so it cannot properly process 16 bit characters.

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