XML to CSV Converter
Extract repeated XML records into standards-compliant CSV rows.
Extract repeated XML records as CSV
Turning XML into a table requires identifying which repeated element represents one row. This converter tokenizes the XML into a balanced node tree, finds every element with the selected row name, and uses its direct child elements as columns. Column names are unioned across all rows so a field appearing later is not discarded, and output cells follow CSV quoting rules.
The default document finds two person elements and returns name,city as the header followed by Ada,London and Lin,Paris. XML entities are decoded, direct child text is collected, and a missing child produces an empty CSV cell. Commas, quotes, or newlines in a value are wrapped and escaped correctly.
How nested markup and missing fields are treated
This tool is intended for record-oriented XML whose row children correspond to scalar columns. Deep nested children are reduced to their combined text rather than expanded into a guessed relational structure, and attributes are not promoted automatically. The parser runs locally in your browser and reports mismatched tags. Choose a row element that represents a consistent record, then review complex columns before importing the CSV.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the tool decide what counts as one CSV row?
You provide the repeated XML element name, and each matching element becomes one row.
What happens when later rows contain new child elements?
The header is the union of direct child names across all matched rows, with empty cells where a row lacks one.
Are XML attributes converted to columns?
No. This version uses direct child elements as columns so attribute and element semantics are not mixed automatically.
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