How import xml files with mysql LOAD XML LOCAL INFILE

Question

I have a xml file like this:

test.xml

Answer 1

Include this line ROWS IDENTIFIED BY ''. with that your query should look like

LOAD XML LOCAL INFILE "D:\\test.xml"
INTO TABLE mytable
ROWS IDENTIFIED BY '';

Looks like your XML file formation is not correct and so even though 1 row gets inserted; all the values doesn't gets extracted (remains NULL).

Do little changes as below

Create table structure

CREATE TABLE mytable (
plugin_name varchar(255),
title varchar(255),
description varchar(255), 
`file` varchar(255),
`install` varchar(255),
hook varchar(255),
phrase varchar(255));

Change your XML file

    
    some description
         test.tmp
    ![CDATA[
        global $test;
    ]]
        ![CDATA[
            global $local;
        ]]
        ![CDATA[Show categories]]

Now if you use

LOAD XML LOCAL INFILE "D:\\test.xml"
INTO TABLE mytable
ROWS IDENTIFIED BY '';

All data gets extracted fine