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Multi Line Field Extraction for XML

SplunkDash
Motivator

Hello,

I have some issues to perform multi-line field extraction for XML, my in-line extraction is not getting any result; sample events and my in-line extraction are provided below. Any help would be appreciated. 

Sample Events:

<Event>

<ID>0123011</ID>

<Time>2023-10-28T05:22:37.97011</Time>

<Application_Name>Test</Application_Name>

<Host_Name>VS0SMADBEFT</Host_Name>

</Event>

<Event>

<ID>01232113</ID>

<Time>2023-10-28T05:22:37.99011</Time>

<Application_Name>Test</Application_Name>

<Host_Name>VS0SMADBEFT</Host_Name>

</Event>

 

In Line Extraction I Used

<ID>(?<ID>[^<]+)<\/ID>([\r\n]*)<Time>(?<Time>[^<]+)</Time>([\r\n]*)<Application_Name>(?<Application_Name>[^<]+)</Application_Name>([\r\n]*)<Host_Name>(?<Host_Name>[^<]+)</Host_Name>

 

 

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1 Solution

PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

To be fully honest, if your data is a well-formed XML, I'd just go for

KV_MODE=xml

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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/Latest/Admin/Propsconf

* dotall (?s) and multi-line (?m) modifiers are added in front of the regex.
  So internally, the regex becomes (?ms)<regex>.

 So if your regex doesn't match, there might be something not 100% OK with it. It almost checks out on regex101 but it warns about possible necessity of escaping the included slashes. So I'd start with verifying that.

SplunkDash
Motivator

@PickleRick 

Thank you so much for your quick response. However, no changes.

I was trying to use props and transforms conf files, but not working as well

My props transforms

[myprops]

REPORT-mytrans_fields=mytrans_fields

[mytrans_fields]

REGEX=\<(\w+[^\n\/\>]+)\/?\>([^\<\n][^\<]*)

FORMAT=$1::$2

DEST_KEY=_raw

 

Any recommendations?

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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

To be fully honest, if your data is a well-formed XML, I'd just go for

KV_MODE=xml
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