# Uploading an xml file into logstash

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uploading-an-xml-file-into-logstash/165016>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [January 21, 2019, 9:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uploading-an-xml-file-into-logstash/165016 "2019-01-21T09:25:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 10:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uploading-an-xml-file-into-logstash/165016/4 "2019-01-21T10:11:46Z")

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you need to use **xpath** to split the xml to get proper output as shown in the example ([Unable to load xml file in logstash](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-load-xml-file-in-logstash/151318/5)) previously

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