This tool strips all XML tags, processing instructions, and CDATA sections, leaving only the text content. Useful for extracting data from XML exports or feeds. Runs entirely in your browser.
Pull the readable text out of an XML document, dropping every element, attribute, and comment. The converter parses the input with the browser’s DOMParser and walks the resulting node tree, concatenating text nodes and CDATA sections in document order. The result is plain text — useful for indexing, search, or pasting into a document.
Standard XML entities (&, <, >, ", ') and numeric references (') are decoded to their actual characters. Block-level elements like <p>, <div>, and <li> add line breaks so paragraph structure survives, while inline tags like <em> and <span> just dissolve. An optional whitespace-collapse step turns runs of spaces and newlines into single spaces.
Yes — their content is included verbatim. CDATA exists precisely to wrap text that would otherwise need entity-escaping, so the inner text is exactly what should appear.
Standard named entities (&, <, >, ", ') and numeric character references (', ') are decoded to their actual characters. So “Tom & Jerry” becomes “Tom & Jerry” in the output.
Empty inline elements like <br/> insert a line break, and block-level elements (<p>, <div>, <li>) get separating newlines so paragraphs don’t collide. Inline tags (<em>, <span>) just disappear.
No — stripping uses the browser’s DOMParser and runs locally.
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