# XML filter in logstash

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xml-filter-in-logstash/250291>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [September 29, 2020, 5:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xml-filter-in-logstash/250291 "2020-09-29T05:37:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 6:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xml-filter-in-logstash/250291/9 "2020-09-30T18:21:22Z")

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If you consume the file one line at a time, which is what a file input does by default, then many of your lines will not be valid XML and the xml filter will not parse them. For example ...

```
<measInfo measInfoId="PM=1,PmGroup=FieldReplaceableUnit">

```

is not a valid XML document, since the opening measInfo tag is not closed.

If you want to consume the whole file as one event then [this](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-array-of-json-objects-with-logstash-and-injesting-to-elastic/203197/2) post shows you how to do it.

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