XML to CSV Converter

Nested elements are flattened with dot notation: <address><city>Boston</city></address> becomes a column named address.city. Each nesting level adds another dotted segment, so an order with two items produces item.0.sku and item.1.sku. This keeps every value addressable in a flat table without losing the hierarchy.

Attributes become their own columns prefixed with @ by default. <book id="bk101" lang="en"><title>Dune</title></book> produces @id, @lang and title columns. An attribute on a nested element joins the dotted path, so <price currency="USD">44.95</price> yields price and price@currency. You can change the prefix to attr_ or remove it in the options.

It auto-detects the outermost repeating element: in a catalog of <book> entries, each book becomes one row. If your document has several repeating groups, use the Row element dropdown to pick a different one, for example line items instead of orders. Documents with no repeating elements are converted as a single row.

Namespace prefixes are stripped by default, so <bk:title> becomes a plain title column. Turn off Strip namespace prefixes to keep them, which gives bk:title and avoids collisions when two namespaces define the same local name. The namespace URIs themselves are never added as columns.

CDATA content is treated as ordinary text, so <![CDATA[a <b> & quote]]> lands in the cell exactly as written. Values containing the delimiter, quotes or line breaks are quoted following RFC 4180, with inner quotes doubled. Mixed content such as text around child elements goes to a #text column.

Keep UTF-8 BOM and CRLF line endings enabled; both are on by default. The BOM tells Excel the file is UTF-8 so accented characters display correctly, and CRLF matches what Excel expects on Windows. If your locale uses semicolons in Excel, pick the semicolon delimiter before downloading.

No. Conversion runs entirely in your browser with JavaScript: your XML is parsed locally with DOMParser, never sent over the network, and there is no account or signup. You can even disconnect from the internet after the page loads and keep converting.

Yes, within browser memory limits. Files of a few megabytes convert instantly; tens of megabytes work but may take a few seconds. The preview shows the first 50 rows to stay fast, while Download exports every row. For very large feeds, selecting the repeating row element explicitly avoids surprises.

The tool shows the exact line and column reported by the parser, for example Invalid XML at line 4, column 18. Common causes are unclosed tags, unescaped & characters and mismatched quotes on attributes. Fix the reported spot and convert again, or validate the document first with our XML validator.

This tool converts one direction only, XML to CSV, which keeps the mapping rules predictable. To go the other way, use our CSV to XML converter, which rebuilds tagged markup from tabular rows.