# Parse xml content to elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parse-xml-content-to-elasticsearch/81954>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 11, 2017, 10:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parse-xml-content-to-elasticsearch/81954 "2017-04-11T10:17:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![zak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8e7dd6/32.png) [@zak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zak)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 10:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parse-xml-content-to-elasticsearch/81954/1 "2017-04-11T10:17:19Z")

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I have a XML documents to be indexed

\<metadata  
\<meta content="Our Projects" name="Section"/  
\<meta content="Completed Projects" name="Categorie"/  
\</metadata

And I want to index the content

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 10:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parse-xml-content-to-elasticsearch/81954/2 "2017-04-11T10:19:42Z")

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Have you looked at Logstash?

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**Author:** ![zak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8e7dd6/32.png) [@zak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zak)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 10:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parse-xml-content-to-elasticsearch/81954/3 "2017-04-11T10:26:45Z")

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Yes I tried logstash but still don't work .

input{  
stdin{}  
}  
filter{  
xml{  
source=\> "message"  
output{  
elasticsearch {  
host =\> "elasticsearch"  
protocol=\> http  
cluster =\> elasticsearch  
port =\> 9220  
index=\> "service\_index"  
}  
}  
And I had this result

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/3/0/30d14413fe9180a9758389da87d8822f3d52ae20.PNG)

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**Author:** ![nellicus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nellicus/32/51566_2.png) [@nellicus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nellicus)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 10:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parse-xml-content-to-elasticsearch/81954/4 "2017-04-11T10:31:21Z")

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you need to pass _well formed_ xml to multiline and wrap into a single event in a field, e.g.message then pass that to the xml filter, see this [Parsing multiline logs : line + xml](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-multiline-logs-line-xml/38417)

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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:** [May 9, 2017, 10:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parse-xml-content-to-elasticsearch/81954/5 "2017-05-09T10:36:28Z")

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