# Xpath output brings arrays instead of json

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xpath-output-brings-arrays-instead-of-json/151768>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [October 10, 2018, 7:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xpath-output-brings-arrays-instead-of-json/151768 "2018-10-10T07:09:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![balumurari1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/balumurari1/32/39203_2.png) [@balumurari1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/balumurari1)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2018, 7:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xpath-output-brings-arrays-instead-of-json/151768/1 "2018-10-10T07:09:49Z")

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filter {  
xml {  
source =\> "message"  
target =\> "parsed"  
store\_xml =\> "false"  
xpath =\> [

"Report/@Name", "cell\_value1",  
/Report/sr08/Report[@Name='sr08']/matrix1[@commodity\_header1='World'] , "cell\_value2",  
....  
]  
}  
}

for this i am getting output,  
 ![out](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/f/b/fb1dc4a3f1725dfba881001d6f393d366336ed8b.png)

Please help me.

Regards,  
Narayana

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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:** [November 7, 2018, 7:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xpath-output-brings-arrays-instead-of-json/151768/2 "2018-11-07T07:09:49Z")

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