James, yes you can do it. You need to write your own input format to split each input on a specified tag boundary.
Sent from a remote device. Please excuse any typos... Mike Segel On Jun 3, 2011, at 6:50 AM, James Ram <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know if it's possible to put xml files in hdfs and have > hbase pull out the data in those xml files. > > We are thinking of a situation where the xml files will have elements > corresponding to the columns in hbase. > So ideally hbase should be able to pull the data corresponding to the > columns from the xml files automatically. > > -- > With Regards, > Jr.
