# XML parsing logstash
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xml-parsing-logstash/143798
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [August 10, 2018, 5:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xml-parsing-logstash/143798 "2018-08-10T05:18:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Josh\_Vj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Josh_Vj)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2018, 5:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xml-parsing-logstash/143798/1 "2018-08-10T05:18:49Z")
Hi all,
I am currently using file beat to export all the below messages from application logs (XML) to ECS. But i like to parse the xml so only few required details are viewed in ECS.
I like to get the value of below tags by only filtering Message name, Ref ID, duration, time value in request/response and discard rest of the XML.
How can achieve that? Please assist.
Update server01 1234 http:\\server.com server 39 00:00:00.1220000 2018-08-09 00:05:10.41 this is a message\<\rawmessage\> 2018-08-09 00:05:10.532 this is a message\<\rawmessage\>
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2018, 5:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xml-parsing-logstash/143798/2 "2018-08-10T05:51:48Z")
Have you looked at the xml filter? It's xpath option should be useful if you only want to extract a couple of fields from the document.
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### Author:  [@Josh\_Vj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Josh_Vj)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2018, 5:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xml-parsing-logstash/143798/3 "2018-08-13T05:22:33Z")
> [@magnusbaeck](#):
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> xml filter
Is there an example i can follow?
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2018, 6:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xml-parsing-logstash/143798/4 "2018-08-13T06:11:12Z")
I searched [discuss.elastic.co](http://discuss.elastic.co) for "xml filter xpath" and the first hit contained an example: [XML XPath filter is parsing fields but not inserting in Elasticsearch](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xml-xpath-filter-is-parsing-fields-but-not-inserting-in-elasticsearch/123910)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2018, 6:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xml-parsing-logstash/143798/5 "2018-09-10T06:11:14Z")
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