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CSV First Aid

CSV to XML

Each row becomes a <record>, headers become child element names. Spaces in headers turn into underscores, ampersands and angle brackets are escaped. Output parses cleanly in any XML parser.

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Converts rows to XML records with header-named elements.

How it works

  1. 1Drop your CSV file above. It stays in your browser.
  2. 2CSV First Aid parses the file and converts each row to an XML record with header-named elements.
  3. 3Download the .xml file.

FAQ

How are column names converted to XML tags?

Spaces and special characters are replaced with underscores. Names starting with numbers get a leading underscore. Invalid XML characters are stripped.

Does it handle special characters in values?

Yes. Ampersands, angle brackets, and quotes are properly escaped as XML entities (&amp;, &lt;, &gt;, &quot;).

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