hive xml serDe : table is empty

Question

I want to store xml data into hive table, XML data :

   1266 
     

        

Answer 1

According to Hive DDL documentation, LOCATION clause expects an hdfs_path. Hence, try specifying only the directory, not the whole path to your XML file. By using LOAD after CREATE TABLE, you cannot have external tables, which might be an interesting approach in some cases.

Reference: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+DDL#LanguageManualDDL-Create/Drop/TruncateTable