XML to CSV Converter

How to use the xml to csv converter

1. Paste your XML.
2. Check the detected columns.
3. Copy or download the CSV.

About this tool

The hard part of this conversion is deciding which element is a row. This picks the most frequently repeated element that still contains fields, and where that is ambiguous — a document with only one record, where the root and the record both appear once — it prefers the inner one. Choosing the outer element instead would collapse the entire document into a single row, which is the failure mode of most naive conversions.

Columns are the union of every field name found across all records, so a record missing a field gets an empty cell rather than shifting everything after it out of alignment.

Be clear about the limits. A table is flat and XML is not, so this reads a flat structure: a root containing repeated records, each holding simple fields. Attributes and nested elements are outside what a CSV can represent, and the tool says so rather than quietly discarding them.

Everything runs in the page. Spreadsheets are usually the most sensitive files anyone handles — customer lists, payroll, financial records — so a tool that works on them without uploading them is doing the one thing that matters most here.

Common uses

• Getting an XML export into a spreadsheet.
• Converting an API response for analysis.
• Turning a feed into a table.

Frequently asked questions

How does it know which element is a row?

It takes the most frequently repeated element that contains fields. With only one record it prefers the inner element, since choosing the root would make the whole document a single row.

What happens to attributes?

They are not converted. A table cannot represent them alongside child elements, and dropping them silently would be worse than saying so.

What if records have different fields?

Columns are the union of all field names, and a record missing one gets an empty cell rather than shifting the row out of alignment.