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Extract key-value pairs from xml file

rxdeleon
Explorer

Here's a snippet of a long XML file. I would like to extract the keys such as id, status, error_sequence_number, etc. then assign the value as indicated by the string "value=".
























































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araitz
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee
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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

When defining field extractions for this sourcetype in transforms.conf you can use a regex like so:

[some_stanza]
...
REGEX  = name="(?<_KEY_1>[^"]+)"\s+value="(?<_VAL_1>[^"]+)"
...

Note, you may want to define two of those if the order of name and value can be reversed in your data.

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