Second answer: If you want a direct answer to your question 🙂 I think your regex is probably correct, although I would escape the < characters in the regex (making them \< ) because < by itself has a special meaning to regex. So if you want to continue with your original solution, try that and forget the xmlkv But your syntax is a bit wrong, too, I think you need the following in transforms.conf [commandId] REGEX=\<CommandId>(d+)\</CommandId> FORMAT=commandid::$1 Yeah, the markdown gets screwy sometimes when you put in XML or HTML stuff... ... View more