This tool parses RFC 4180 CSV and generates an XML document. The first row provides the child element names for each data column. You can customise the root and row element names. All processing happens in your browser.
root and row).Converting CSV to XML transforms tabular data into a hierarchical document format used by legacy enterprise systems, SOAP APIs, and configuration pipelines. This converter maps each CSV row to an XML element and each column value to a child element — producing valid, well-formed XML that downstream parsers can process without modification.
A CSV file with headers "id, name, country" and three rows produces XML like: <root><row><id>1</id><name>Alice</name>...</row></root>. Element names are sanitised to be valid XML identifiers (spaces replaced with underscores, leading digits prefixed with an underscore). Optional XML declaration (<?xml version="1.0"?>) and encoding attribute are included in the output.
XML element names cannot contain spaces or most special characters. The converter replaces spaces with underscores and removes non-alphanumeric characters (except hyphens and dots) to produce valid element names.
Yes — enable the "values as attributes" option. Instead of <id>1</id> inside a row element, the row element gets an id="1" attribute. Use child elements (the default) for multi-word or complex values; attributes for short identifiers.
Yes — the converter produces well-formed XML conforming to the XML 1.0 specification. Special characters (<, >, &, ", ') in values are entity-escaped automatically.
Use the XML to CSV tool — it reverses the structure, extracting child elements of each row element as CSV columns.
See also XML to CSV, CSV to JSON, XML Formatter, and the full data-format toolkit.