Hive XML Serde - NULLPOINTEREXCEPTION
Try out these as values for column.xpath.<your attribute-name> property in your CREATE statement.
"column.xpath.id"="Par/recs/rec/id/text()","column.xpath.name"="Par/recs/rec/name/text()","column.xpath.type"="Par/recs/rec/type/text()","column.xpath.dependency"="Par/recs/rec/dependency/text()", "column.xpath.values"="Par/recs/rec/values/text()"I believe this modification will work for you.