Convert CSV to XML

Convert CSV to XML in your browser: load your CSV, choose XML as the target, and download the result. The converter reports exactly what it could not carry across, and nothing is uploaded to a server.

Convert CSV to XMLRuns in your browser. Nothing uploaded.

When you need this

Feeding a spreadsheet into a system that only accepts XML — an EDI interface, a schema-validated upload, an older import job. Usually the last step before a file goes somewhere that will reject it on a technicality.

How to convert CSV to XML

Load your CSV

Drag the .csv file in, or paste the rows. An export from Excel, Numbers or a database client works unchanged, including a quoted header row. Nothing leaves your browser at this or any later step.

Choose the target format

Press Ctrl+Shift+K (Cmd+Shift+K on a Mac) to open the conversion panel, then pick XML as the target. The source and the result sit side by side.

Read the loss report

The panel shows whether the conversion is lossless for your particular data, and lists every value it had to transform. Adjust indentation, key sorting and null handling if you need to.

Take the XML

Download the .xml file, copy it, or open it as a new tab to keep working on it in the XML views.

What survives the conversion

CSV to XML cannot be lossless, because the two formats express different things. Rows are wrapped in a generated element name; headers that are not valid names are rewritten.

• Rows are wrapped in a generated element name, because XML needs one root and each row needs an element. The names used appear in the warnings so you can compare them with the schema you are targeting.
• Headers that are not valid XML names are rewritten — a column called 2024 total cannot become <2024 total>, so it is transformed and the change is reported.
• Values are written as text with the five XML entities escaped. No types are asserted, because a CSV does not carry any.

A worked example

Rows wrapped, with an invalid header name rewritten:

2024 total,region
42,EU

<root>
  <row>
    <_2024_total>42</_2024_total>
    <region>EU</region>
  </row>
</root>

Privacy

The conversion runs in your browser — in a Web Worker for anything above a quarter of a megabyte, so the page stays responsive. Your data is not uploaded, not logged and not stored. There is no account, and the whole thing works offline.

Convert CSV to XML