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Why am I getting blank rows extracting a multi line XML file with xmlkv and regex?

andyhine
New Member

I am trying to extract a multi line XML file with many
<title>blah</title> elements.

Using
sourcetype="schedule" | rex field=_raw "\<title\>(?<title>.*?)\</title\>" | table title
or
sourcetype="schedule" | xmlkv title | table title

I get many blank rows. The data does not have any elements.

Using | fields title instead of | table title does not give any empty data as far as I can tell.

Thanks

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andyhine
New Member

Thanks that didn't seem to make any difference to my blank rows.

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

Just try this

sourcetype="schedule" | xmlkv | table title

OR 

sourcetype="schedule"|  rex field=_raw "\<title\>(?<title>(.*(\n)*)*)\</title\>" | table title
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sk314
Builder

It could be that there are events without the xml entries. You could try piping this to remove null values.

|search title!=NULL | table title

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andyhine
New Member

Thanks

Trying

sourcetype="schedule" | xmlkv | table title

and

sourcetype="schedule"| rex field=_raw "\<title\>(?<title>(.*(\n)*)*)\</title\>" | table title

I get a blank table of results but clicking to sort by title get other results.

How can I filter out all these blank rows (and where are they coming from!?)

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sk314
Builder

Instead of rex, you could add the following entry to your props.conf file under "schedule" sourcetype:
kv_mode = xml

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