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How to ingest a non-standard XML file based on file-mod timestamp and extract all XML attributes?

leonheart78
Explorer

Hi,

I'm trying to ingest multiple files with the below format:

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

<BroadcastData creationDate="20150820080127">

    <CVendorInfo>

        <CVendorId>Lysis</CVendorId>

        <CVendorName>Lysis S.A.</CVendorName>

    </CVendorInfo>

    <ScheduleData>

        <FreqPeriod endTime="20150820082900" beginTime="20150820070000">

            <FreqId>174</FreqId>

            <Event duration="1740" beginTime="20150820070000">

                <EventId>CP0012650858</EventId>

                <DvbEventId>15664</DvbEventId>

                <EventType>S</EventType>

                <PreviewTime>0</PreviewTime>

                <VpgProduction>

                    <VpgText language="eng">

                        <Name>Headline News</Name>

                        <Description>Top Stories in Headlines.</Description>

                        <ExtendedInfo name="Contentid_ref">CP0012650858</ExtendedInfo>

                        <ExtendedInfo name="AudioTrack">eng</ExtendedInfo>

                        <ExtendedInfo name="Start_over_flag">0</ExtendedInfo>

                    </VpgText>

                    <ParentalRating>0</ParentalRating>

                    <DvbContent>

                        <Content nibble2="0" nibble1="0"/>

                        <User nibble2="A" nibble1="0"/>

                    </DvbContent>

                </VpgProduction>

            </Event>

            <Event duration="1860" beginTime="20150820072900">

                <EventId>CP0012650859</EventId>

                <DvbEventId>15665</DvbEventId>

                <EventType>S</EventType>

                <PreviewTime>0</PreviewTime>

                <VpgProduction>

                    <VpgText language="eng">

                        <Name>Boom Bust</Name>

                        <Description>Booms and BustDescription>

                        <ExtendedInfo name="Contentid_ref">CP0012650859</ExtendedInfo>

                        <ExtendedInfo name="AudioTrack">eng</ExtendedInfo>

                        <ExtendedInfo name="Start_over_flag">0</ExtendedInfo>

                    </VpgText>

                    <ParentalRating>0</ParentalRating>

                    <DvbContent>

                        <Content nibble2="0" nibble1="0"/>

                        <User nibble2="A" nibble1="0"/>

                    </DvbContent>

                </VpgProduction>

            </Event>

            <Event duration="1740" beginTime="20150820080000">

                <EventId> CP0012650860</EventId>

                <DvbEventId>15666</DvbEventId>

                <EventType>S</EventType>

                <PreviewTime>0</PreviewTime>

                <VpgProduction>

                    <VpgText language="eng">

                        <Name>Headline News</Name>

                        <Description> Top Stories in Headlines.</Description>

                        <ExtendedInfo name="Contentid_ref"> CP0012650860</ExtendedInfo>

                        <ExtendedInfo name="AudioTrack">eng</ExtendedInfo>

                        <ExtendedInfo name="Start_over_flag">0</ExtendedInfo>

                    </VpgText>

                    <ParentalRating>0</ParentalRating>

                    <DvbContent>

                        <Content nibble2="0" nibble1="0"/>

                        <User nibble2="A" nibble1="0"/>

                    </DvbContent>

                </VpgProduction>

            </Event>

        </FreqPeriod>

    </ScheduleData>

</BroadcastData>

I want to have the timestamp based on the BroadcastData creationDate, and to extract all the XML attributes. How can I go about doing this? Thanks in advance.

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1 Solution

gcato
Contributor

Hi Leonheart78,

If you want to do it as part of an inline search then the "spath" command will extract the xml. Refer to this answer http://answers.splunk.com/answers/184469/how-to-extract-unique-values-from-xml-data.html

Splunk can be configured to automatically extract the XML fields also with KV_MODE=xml on the source/sourcetype in props.conf (configure at forwarder end or indexer end). Refer to http://answers.splunk.com/answers/129820/extract-xml-field.html

Use either the rex command, or ideally set up a field extraction, to pull the creation time out of Broadcast namespace, e.g.

... | rex field=_raw "creationDate=\"(?<bc_creationDate>[^\"]+)

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gcato
Contributor

Hi Leonheart78,

If you want to do it as part of an inline search then the "spath" command will extract the xml. Refer to this answer http://answers.splunk.com/answers/184469/how-to-extract-unique-values-from-xml-data.html

Splunk can be configured to automatically extract the XML fields also with KV_MODE=xml on the source/sourcetype in props.conf (configure at forwarder end or indexer end). Refer to http://answers.splunk.com/answers/129820/extract-xml-field.html

Use either the rex command, or ideally set up a field extraction, to pull the creation time out of Broadcast namespace, e.g.

... | rex field=_raw "creationDate=\"(?<bc_creationDate>[^\"]+)
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