Hi,

I was working on this several months ago, and ended up having to flatten each 
XML document to one root node per line. I believe that the other option would 
be to write a custom InputFormat.

Matt



On Aug 30, 2012, at 3:57 PM, Sadananda Hegde <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> I would like to load an XML data file into HIVE.  I created a table with just 
> one column:
>  
> create table xmltable (xmldata String )
> STORED AS TEXTFILE;
>  
> and then loaded the xml file into that table
>  
> LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH '/test.xml'
> OVERWRITE INTO TABLE xmltable;
>  
> I thought I can use the XPATH to extract individual elements. But I am not 
> sure
>  
> 1) How to specify the root node as a record terminator on CREATE TABLE 
> statement (it's using '\n' by default)
> 2) Change the current context / node for the XPATH
>  
> Can some one provide guidance and may be point to some good examples?
>  
> Thanks,
> Sadu

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