Hi, Looks like there is a problem in spark-xml if the xml has multiple attributes with no child element.
For example say the xml has a nested object as below <bkval> <book id="bk113">bk_113</book> <book id="bk114">bk_114</book> </bkval> Now if I create a dataframe starting with rowtag bkval and then I do a select on that data frame it gives following error. scala.MatchError: ENDDOCUMENT (of class com.sun.xml.internal.stream.events.EndDocumentEvent) at com.databricks.spark.xml.parsers.StaxXmlParser$.checkEndElement(StaxXmlParser.scala:94) at com.databricks.spark.xml.parsers.StaxXmlParser$.com$databricks$spark$xml$parsers$StaxXmlParser$$convertObject(StaxXmlParser.scala:295) at com.databricks.spark.xml.parsers.StaxXmlParser$$anonfun$parse$1$$anonfun$apply$4.apply(StaxXmlParser.scala:58) at com.databricks.spark.xml.parsers.StaxXmlParser$$anonfun$parse$1$$anonfun$apply$4.apply(StaxXmlParser.scala:46) at scala.collection.Iterator$$anon$13.hasNext(Iterator.scala:371) at scala.collection.Iterator$$anon$11.hasNext(Iterator.scala:327) at scala.collection.Iterator$$anon$11.hasNext(Iterator.scala:327) at scala.collection.Iterator$$anon$10.hasNext(Iterator.scala:308) at scala.collection.Iterator$class.foreach(Iterator.scala:727) at scala.collection.AbstractIterator.foreach(Iterator.scala:1157) at scala.collection.generic.Growable$class.$plus$plus$eq(Growable.scala:48) at scala.collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer.$plus$plus$eq(ArrayBuffer.scala:103) at scala.collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer.$plus$plus$eq(ArrayBuffer.scala:47) at scala.collection.TraversableOnce$class.to(TraversableOnce.scala:273) at scala.collection.AbstractIterator.to(Iterator.scala:1157) at scala.collection.TraversableOnce$class.toBuffer(TraversableOnce.scala:265) at scala.collection.AbstractIterator.toBuffer(Iterator.scala:1157) at scala.collection.TraversableOnce$class.toArray(TraversableOnce.scala:252) at scala.collection.AbstractIterator.toArray(Iterator.scala:1157) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan$$anonfun$5.apply(SparkPlan.scala:215) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan$$anonfun$5.apply(SparkPlan.scala:215) at org.apache.spark.SparkContext$$anonfun$runJob$5.apply(SparkContext.scala:1850) at org.apache.spark.SparkContext$$anonfun$runJob$5.apply(SparkContext.scala:1850) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.ResultTask.runTask(ResultTask.scala:66) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.Task.run(Task.scala:88) at org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$TaskRunner.run(Executor.scala:214) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) However if there is only one row like below, it works fine. <bkval> <book id="bk113">bk_113</book> </bkval> Any workaround ? Regards, Sourav