# Parsing repeated tags in XML

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-repeated-tags-in-xml/267405>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [March 16, 2021, 5:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-repeated-tags-in-xml/267405 "2021-03-16T17:57:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![adityaPsl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47c2d/32.png) [@adityaPsl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adityaPsl)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2021, 5:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-repeated-tags-in-xml/267405/1 "2021-03-16T17:57:17Z")

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Hello Team,

I have XML data where there are repeated tags, as per the documentation it is converting it to an array, but I want to implement it like break on first match or convert array to single value.  
Could you please help me understand how can we achieve this in logstash.

Thanks for your help and support.

Aditya

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**Author:** ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2021, 6:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-repeated-tags-in-xml/267405/2 "2021-03-16T18:13:58Z")

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You can replace the array with its first entry

```
mutate { replace => { "someField" => "%{[someField][0]}" } }
```

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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:** [April 13, 2021, 6:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-repeated-tags-in-xml/267405/3 "2021-04-13T18:14:48Z")

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