CSV to XML Converter

Convert CSV to XML with your own element names and structure

The CSV to XML converter turns spreadsheet exports, database dumps and contact lists into XML for import tools, product feeds, configuration systems and web services. Paste CSV or TSV, or open a file saved from Excel or Google Sheets, and the XML appears as you type — one element per row and one child element, or attribute, per column.

It does more than wrap cells in tags. Column headers become legal XML names, a header such as @id becomes an attribute, address.city becomes a nested element and tags.tag.1, tags.tag.2 become repeated elements — so a flat file can still produce properly structured XML. Quoted fields with commas, doubled quotes and line breaks are read exactly as RFC 4180 describes.

The conversion runs in your browser, so the data in your spreadsheet is never uploaded.

How to use the CSV to XML Converter

1. Paste CSV into CSV input or press Open file. The delimiter is detected automatically; choose comma, semicolon, tab or pipe to override it.
2. Name the Root element and Row element, for example products and product.
3. Choose whether columns become child elements or attributes of each row, and whether empty cells become empty elements or are left out.
4. Optionally add type hints, and pick the indent and the XML declaration.
5. Press Copy or Download XML. Swap opens the result in the XML to CSV converter to check the round trip.

CSV to XML Converter features

From a CSV row to an XML element

Untick “Headers like a.b and @id nest and make attributes” to keep every header as one flat element name instead. Characters such as & and < in cells are escaped, and the whole document is checked with your browser’s XML parser before it is shown.

Preparing a spreadsheet for XML

Going the other way? XML to CSV flattens XML records back into columns using the same naming rules. For JSON instead of XML, use CSV to JSON, and to pretty-print or validate an existing file, the XML Formatter.

• Save as “CSV UTF-8”. In Excel use File → Save As → CSV UTF-8 (Comma delimited), so ₹, £ and accented names survive. Google Sheets downloads CSV as UTF-8 already.
• Rename the headers first. Header names become element names, so make them match what the importing system expects — sku, price, @currency.
• One header row, one record per row. Merged cells, subtotal rows and second header rows do not survive CSV export and would become extra records.
• Use ISO dates. If the target schema uses xs:date, format dates as 2026-01-14 before exporting.