Convert CSV to XML Online
Convert CSV tables to structured XML. Free, in your browser, no file uploads.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<data>
<row>
<nombre>Juan</nombre>
<edad>30</edad>
<ciudad>Madrid</ciudad>
</row>
<row>
<nombre>Maria</nombre>
<edad>25</edad>
<ciudad>Barcelona</ciudad>
</row>
</data>Use cases
CSV to XML for integrations, feeds, and mobile resources
RSS feeds from spreadsheets
Transform a CSV of articles or products into an XML feed ready to publish or import.
ERP/CRM import
Generate XML files to import data into SAP, Salesforce, Magento, or other enterprise systems.
Android resources (strings.xml)
Convert a translations CSV into the base of an Android strings.xml resource file.
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Conversion runs in your browser. Your CSV is never sent to any server.
How it works
Three steps, no hassle
Paste or upload your CSV
Drag your .csv file or paste the content directly. The first row is used as XML tag names.
Instant conversion
XML is generated in your browser immediately. Each row becomes an element and each column becomes a child tag.
Copy or download the XML
Copy the XML to clipboard or download it as a .xml file ready to import into any system.
FAQ
Got questions?
Column headers from the first row of the CSV become XML tag names for each field. For example, a column called 'name' generates the <name> tag inside each <row> or <item> element. If a column name contains spaces or special characters, they are automatically sanitized to comply with the W3C XML 1.0 specification, which requires element names to start with a letter or underscore and contain no spaces.
The most frequent use cases are: importing data into ERP or CRM systems that accept XML (SAP, Salesforce, Magento), generating RSS or Atom feeds from spreadsheet data, creating Android string resources (strings.xml) from a translations CSV, building SOAP payloads to integrate with legacy web services, and generating basic XML sitemaps from a URL list exported to CSV.
Yes. The generated XML includes the <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> declaration and conforms to the W3C XML 1.0 Fifth Edition specification. Special characters like <, >, & and quotes are automatically escaped as XML entities (<, >, &, ") so the document is well-formed and can be processed by any standard XML parser such as expat, libxml2, or browser DOM parsers.
By default, <root> is used as the root element and <row> for each record. Many scenarios require specific names: <products> and <product> for e-commerce feeds, <employees> and <employee> for HR imports, or <urlset> and <url> for sitemaps. If the tool does not allow direct configuration, you can do a global find-and-replace of the names in a text editor before using the file.
Android's strings.xml format requires a structure like <resources><string name="key">value</string></resources>. If your CSV has 'name' and 'value' columns, the conversion generates the base XML. You then need to adjust the root element to <resources> and change each row's tag to <string name="{name_column_value}">{value_column_value}</string>. This workflow is standard for managing Android app translations in shared spreadsheets with translation teams.
Empty values generate empty XML tags (<field></field> or <field/>), which are valid in XML. Fields containing commas must be enclosed in double quotes in the original CSV (RFC 4180 format), for example: "Madrid, Spain". If the CSV follows the RFC 4180 standard, the conversion correctly handles escaped quotes, line breaks within fields, and alternative delimiters such as semicolons, which is the standard separator in European regional settings.
Convert CSV to XML: RSS feeds, ERP imports, Android resources, and SOAP payloads
CSV (Comma-Separated Values, standardized as RFC 4180 by the IETF in October 2005) is the universal export format for spreadsheets and databases: Excel, Google Sheets, LibreOffice Calc, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and virtually any data management system can export to CSV in a single click. However, most enterprise systems, web services, e-commerce platforms, and mobile applications require XML as their data interchange format. XML (Extensible Markup Language, W3C XML 1.0 Fifth Edition specification, published November 2008) has been the de facto standard for interoperability between heterogeneous systems since the late 1990s, and despite the growing use of JSON in modern REST APIs, XML remains mandatory in numerous contexts: SOAP protocols, RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 feeds, Google sitemaps (sitemaps.org protocol), document interchange formats such as OOXML (the internal format of .docx and .xlsx) and SVG, Android application configurations, and legacy systems in sectors such as banking, healthcare (HL7, FHIR in XML), logistics, and government.
One of the most frequent use cases is generating RSS or Atom feeds from data stored in spreadsheets. A content editor, an online store, or a news portal may maintain a catalog of articles or products in Google Sheets and need to publish that content as an XML feed for aggregators, RSS readers, or for import into a CMS. The structure of an RSS 2.0 feed is pure XML: each item has <title>, <link>, <description>, <pubDate>, and <guid> elements that map directly to CSV columns. Similarly, XML sitemaps (whose protocol was developed in 2005 by Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft and is documented at sitemaps.org) can be generated from a URL CSV exported from any crawling tool such as Screaming Frog, Sitebulb, or the indexed pages report in Google Search Console. Another common use case in Android application development is managing string resources (strings.xml): translation teams work in shared spreadsheets with the key (string name) in one column and the translation in another, and the workflow requires converting that CSV to the XML format specific to Android Resources before incorporating it into the project in Android Studio.
In the enterprise integration space, CSV to XML conversion is the first step for importing data into ERP and CRM systems that use XML as their standard import format. SAP uses XML in its IDoc interfaces and in the SAP Business Technology Platform APIs. Salesforce Data Loader accepts XML for bulk imports. Magento and WooCommerce allow importing product catalogs in XML. Enterprise content management systems like Adobe Experience Manager or Sitecore use XML formats for content migration. In the context of web services, SOAP payloads (Simple Object Access Protocol, a W3C standard since 2003) are pure XML: if you have data in a CSV that you need to send to a legacy SOAP web service — something still very common in banking, insurance, and public administration integrations — conversion to XML is the indispensable prerequisite for building the SOAP envelope. Convertir.ai performs this transformation entirely in your browser using pure JavaScript: no software installation, no uploading data to external servers, no row or file size limits, with automatic character validation per W3C XML 1.0 and guaranteed UTF-8 encoding.