neo4j cypher parse and load XML - neo4j

Question

I am trying to load the following Equipment.XML into neo4j database -
<NetworkEntity>
<Equipment>
<Name>IPTC.net/ABC12345</Name>
<Type>CHASSIS</Type>
<SubType>Nokia 7750</SubType>
</Equipment>
<Equipment>
<Name>IPTC.net/ABC12345/Shelf-1</Name>
<Type>SHELF</Type>
<SubType>Nokia 7750</SubType>
<Associations>
<Association>
<Target>
<EntityName>IPTC.net/ABC12345</EntityName>
<EntityType>Equipment</EntityType>
</Target>
<RelationshipType>RESIDES_ON</RelationshipType>
<Features>
<Feature>
<Name>Feat1</Name>
<Value>123</Value>
</Feature>
</Features>
</Association>
</Associations>
</Equipment>
</NetworkEntity>
I have written the following cypher procedure so far -
call apoc.load.xml("file:///opt/home/neo4j/NEO4JINSTANCE1/neo4j-enterprise-3.0.1/import/Equipment.xml")
yield value as ne UNWIND ne._children AS eqs
FOREACH( eq IN eqs |
FOREACH( child IN eq["_children"] |
CREATE (:SPAEquipment {name: child["_text"]})))
RETURN *;
But it is considering each property of the Equipment tag as a separate SPAEquipment. Hence Name, Type and SubType - each is getting created as a SPAEquipment instead of three properties of the same SPAEquipment. So instead of children I should use different tags. Also I am not able to create the association between the equipments quite correctly.
So, basically I need to create the different equipments in the database with the corresponding properties and also I need to create the relationships between them.

Answer 1

I'm not that familiar with load_xml but I think neo4j is doing exactly what you are asking.
You have the CREATE on the child of the Equipment.
You are saying:
For each get the children,
For each _child
CREATE SPEquipment ...
What I think you want is
For each <Equipment>
CREATE (s:SPAEquipment {id:<maybe with a simple ID here>})
For each _child
set s.propertyName=child["text"]
However, I am not sure how apoc.load.xml does that
The only way I have been able to get the children is as an array of pairs (_type,_text) and I can't seem to figure out how to do anything with that.
call apoc.load.xml("file:///Volumes/Data/neo4j-enterprise- 3.0.3/import/myXML.xml") yield value as ne UNWIND ne._children AS eqs
RETURN eqs, [attr IN eqs._children WHERE attr._type IN
['Name','Type','SubType'] | [attr._type, attr._text]] as pairs
╒══════════════════════════════╤══════════════════════════════╕
│eqs │pairs │
╞══════════════════════════════╪══════════════════════════════╡
│{_type: Equipment, id: 01, _ch│[[Name, IPTC.net/ABC12345], [T│
│ildren: [{_type: Name, _text: │ype, CHASSIS], [SubType, Nokia│
│IPTC.net/ABC12345}, {_type: Ty│ 7750]] │
│pe, _text: CHASSIS}, {_type: S│ │
│ubType, _text: Nokia 7750}]} │ │
├──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤
[...]
Note: I created id attributes on my sample, you won't have those.

Answer 2

I couldn't solve this issue using apoc.load.xml. apoc.load.xml breaks the structure into tree and we need to write cypher on top of it. But it was a very complex query and I failed to write it properly.
So I wrote an XSL which would parse the Equipment.xml and build the cypher queries. This is just for our internal use purpose and it's working fine.
Thanks.