CSV

CSV to XML Converter

Converts delimited rows into well-formed XML with one element per row.

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How to use this tool

  1. Paste the CSV.
  2. Set the root and row element names to match the schema you are targeting.
  3. Convert and check that the generated element names are the ones you expect.

What csv to xml does

Plenty of systems still exchange data as XML, and a CSV extract is often the thing that has to be reshaped to feed one. Each row becomes an element, each column a child element named after the header, and you choose the names of the outer container and the repeating row element so the result matches whatever schema is waiting for it.

XML element names cannot contain spaces, cannot start with a digit and cannot include most punctuation, so a header such as "2024 total" is rewritten to something valid rather than producing a document no parser will read. Values are escaped for XML text content, which keeps ampersands and angle brackets from breaking the document.

Frequently asked questions

XML element names cannot contain spaces, so the name is rewritten into a valid form. Check the output if the receiving system expects exact names.

Not here. Every column becomes a child element, which is the form that handles arbitrary text content without further escaping rules.

It is well formed, which is a different thing from valid. Validating against a specific XSD is a separate step this tool does not perform.