Yeah I support this. XML is pretty outdated format TBH but still used in many legacy systems. For example, Wikipedia dump is one case.
Even when you take a look from stats CVS vs XML vs JSON, some show that XML is more used in CSV. On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 12:58 AM Sandip Agarwala < sandip.agarw...@databricks.com> wrote: > Dear Spark community, > > I would like to start a discussion on "XML data source support". > > XML is a widely used data format. An external spark-xml package ( > https://github.com/databricks/spark-xml) is available to read and write > XML data in spark. Making spark-xml built-in will provide a better user > experience for Spark SQL and structured streaming. The proposal is to > inline code from the spark-xml package. > I am collaborating with Hyukjin Kwon, who is the original author of > spark-xml, for this effort. > > SPIP link: > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZaOBT4-YFtN58UCx2cdFhlsKbie1ugAn-Fgz_Dddz-Q/edit?usp=sharing > > JIRA: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-44265 > > Looking forward to your feedback. > Thanks, Sandip >
