title: Mapreduce XML input format - to build custom format
body: <p>If the input files in XML format, I shouldn't be using TextInputFormat because TextInputFormat assumes each record is in each line of the input file and the Mapper class is called for each line to get a Key Value pair for that record/line.</p>
  
  <p>So I think we need a custom input format to scan the XML datasets. </p>
  
  <p>Being new to Hadoop mapreduce, is there any article/link/video that shows the steps to build a custom input format?</p>
  
  <p>thanks
  nath</p>