Loading xml data into hive table :org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException

Question

I\'m trying to load XML data into Hive but I\'m getting an error :

java.lang.RuntimeException: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: Hive Runt

Answer 1

Also ensure that the XML file doesn't contain any empty spaces at the end of the last closing tag. In my case, the source file had one, and whenever I loaded the file into hive, my resulting table contained NULLS in them. So whenever I applied an xpath function, the result would have a few of these [] [] [] [] [] []

Although the xpath_string function worked, the xpath_double and xpath_int functions never did. It kept throwing this exception -

Diagnostic Messages for this Task:
java.lang.RuntimeException: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: Hive Runtime Error while processing row {"line":""}