# Logstash XML file headers

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-xml-file-headers/109613>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [November 29, 2017, 2:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-xml-file-headers/109613 "2017-11-29T14:41:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![GGA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b487fb/32.png) [@GGA](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/GGA)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 2:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-xml-file-headers/109613/1 "2017-11-29T14:41:01Z")

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Hi,

I'm parsing xml files coming from filebeat, with logstash.

I have a configuration that works fine, but it's not parsing the header and with the end of the files

One of the headers of a file:

```
   	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <Audit xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/oracleas/schema/dbserver_audittrail-11_2.xsd"
     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
     xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.oracle.com/oracleas/schema/dbserver_audittrail-11_2.xsd">
     <Version>11.2</Version>
 <AuditRecord><Audit_Type>1</Audit_Type><Session_Id>0</Session_Id><StatementId>0</StatementId><EntryId>1</EntryId><Extended_Timestamp>2017-11-29T00:00:00.000000Z</Extended_Timestamp><DB_User>some</DB_User><OS_User>some</OS_User><Userhost>some</Userhost><OS_Process>0</OS_Process><Terminal>some</Terminal><Instance_Number>0</Instance_Number><Object_Schema>some</Object_Schema><Object_Name>some</Object_Name><Action>0</Action><TransactionId>0</TransactionId><Returncode>0</Returncode><Scn>0</Scn><DBID>0</DBID>
  <Sql_Text>some s>ql</Sql_Text>
  </AuditRecord>

```

I only need the info in the data of the tags in the AuditRecord tag

This is my .conf for logstash:

```
 input {
 beats {
     port => "5044"
 }
 }
 
 filter {
   xml {
 source => "message"
 xpath =>
 [
     "/AuditRecord/Audit_Type/text()", "AuditType",
     "/AuditRecord/Session_Id/text()", "SessionId",
     "/AuditRecord/StatementId/text()", "StatementId",
     "/AuditRecord/EntryId/text()", "EntryId",
     "/AuditRecord/Extended_Timestamp/text()", "ExtendedTimestamp",
     "/AuditRecord/DB_User/text()", "DB_User",
     "/AuditRecord/OS_User/text()", "OS_User",
     "/AuditRecord/Userhost/text()", "Userhost",
     "/AuditRecord/OS_Process/text()", "OS_Process",
     "/AuditRecord/Terminal/text()", "Terminal",
     "/AuditRecord/Instance_Number/text()", "InstanceNumber",
     "/AuditRecord/Object_Schema/text()", "ObjectSchema",
     "/AuditRecord/Object_Name/text()", "ObjectName",
     "/AuditRecord/Action/text()", "Action",
     "/AuditRecord/TransactionId/text()", "TransactionId",
     "/AuditRecord/Returncode/text()", "Returncode",
     "/AuditRecord/Scn/text()", "Scn",
     "/AuditRecord/Comment_Text/text()", "Comment_Text",
     "/AuditRecord/DBID/text()", "DBID",
     "/AuditRecord/Sql_Bind/text()", "SqlBind",
     "/AuditRecord/Sql_Text/text()", "Sql_Text"
 ]
 store_xml => false
   }
 }
 
 output {
 elasticsearch {
     hosts => ["SomeEScluster:9200"]
 }
 }

```

Any help to parse headers?

Thanks in advance.

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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:** [December 27, 2017, 2:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-xml-file-headers/109613/2 "2017-12-27T14:41:05Z")

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