Problem with XML input

[mblauw]

I've got a problem with my XML input. I've tried several settings, but can't seem to find the right ones.. Here's a sample of my data:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>



<ActueleVertrekTijden>

    <VertrekkendeTrein>
        <RitNummer>781</RitNummer>
        <VertrekTijd>2017-03-24T22:04:00+0100</VertrekTijd>

            <VertrekVertraging>PT7M</VertrekVertraging>


            <VertrekVertragingTekst>+7 min</VertrekVertragingTekst>

        <EindBestemming>Groningen</EindBestemming>
        <TreinSoort>Intercity</TreinSoort>

            <RouteTekst>A'dam Zuid, Almere C., Lelystad C.</RouteTekst>


            <Vervoerder>NS</Vervoerder>

        <VertrekSpoor wijziging="false">1-2</VertrekSpoor>


    </VertrekkendeTrein>

    <VertrekkendeTrein>
        <RitNummer>11683</RitNummer>
        <VertrekTijd>2017-03-24T22:05:00+0100</VertrekTijd>


        <EindBestemming>Amersfoort Schothorst</EindBestemming>
        <TreinSoort>Intercity</TreinSoort>

            <RouteTekst>A'dam Zuid, Hilversum, Amersfoort</RouteTekst>


            <Vervoerder>NS</Vervoerder>

        <VertrekSpoor wijziging="false">3</VertrekSpoor>


    </VertrekkendeTrein>

</ActueleVertrekTijden>

I've currently got these settings in props.conf:

[ns_api]
CHARSET=AUTO
LINE_BREAKER=>\s*(?=)
REPORT-xmlext=xml-extr
SHOULD_LINEMERGE=false
TIME_FORMAT=%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S
TIME_PREFIX=\
disabled=false
pulldown_type=true

And these settings in transforms.conf:

[xml-extr]
REGEX = <([^>]+)>([^<]*)<\/\1>
FORMAT = $1::$2
MV_ADD = true
REPEAT_MATCH = true

Setting should_linemerge to true already helps a bit, but is still not correctly extracting separate events.

[DMohn]

Try the following setting in your transforms.conf:

REGEX = <([^\s\>]*)[^\>]*\>([^<]*)\<\/\1\>

(further reference here: https://answers.splunk.com/answers/133533/xml-extraction.html?utm_source=typeahead&utm_medium=newque...)

This will at least capture all the "regular" XML events.

Furthermore you have some other settings that could be optimized. As you have multiline events you should set the linemerging to true. then, the timestamp extraction could be erroneous.

Setting these options in your porps.conf could help:

SHOULD_LINEMERGE = true
TIMESTAMP_PREFIX=<VertrekTijd>
TIME_FORMAT=%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z
LINEBREAKER = (\r\n)+(<VertrekkendeTrein>)

You will still be left with some unextracted fieds within the event tags, but you can still include additional extraction regexes for these.