Help in using xml as source inout for mashapp

Hi,

this happens when you don't specify a meaningful repeating element. The repeating element is a XPath-like description of the elements in the XML file you want as rows in the MashZone result set.

If your XML looks like this...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="yes"?>
<result>
  <data>
    <datarow>
      <country name="DE">Germany</country>
      <metric1>934.0</metric1>
      <metric2>7885.0</metric2>
    </datarow>
    <datarow>
      <country name="US">United States</country>
      <metric1>122343.0</metric1>
      <metric2>1225.0</metric2>
    </datarow>
    <datarow>
      <country name="CN">China</country>
      <metric1>62231.0</metric1>
      <metric2>13.0</metric2>
    </datarow>
  </data>
</result>

...a meaningful repeating element could be "/result/data/datarow", which would give you 4 columns (datarow-country, country-name, datarow-metric1 and datarow-metric2) and 3 rows (one each for DE, US and CN) in MashZone.

In short: Each repeating element creates a row in MashZone, each XML content tag or attribute within that repeat element creates a column in MashZone (depending on the configuration of the XML source operator).