This tool parses an XML document in the browser and converts its structure to YAML using the js-yaml library. Element attributes are prefixed with @. Nested elements become nested YAML mappings. All processing happens in your browser — no data is sent to a server.
Convert XML into YAML — the format used by Kubernetes manifests, Ansible playbooks, and most modern config files. The converter parses the XML with the browser’s DOMParser, then emits YAML with each element as a mapping key. Repeated children collapse into YAML sequences, and attributes are preserved under @-prefixed keys to avoid colliding with child element names.
When an element has both attributes and text content, the text lives under #text alongside the @-prefixed entries (the standard convention shared with XML→JSON converters). Strings that could be misread by a YAML parser — numbers, dates, booleans, anything with a colon or hash — are auto-quoted; plain strings stay unquoted for readability.
Two or more siblings with the same name become a YAML sequence (- ). A single child stays a scalar mapping. Force-sequence mode is available when downstream consumers expect a list even of one item.
They are prefixed with @ (e.g. "@id": 3) so they don’t clash with same-named child elements. When an element has both attributes and text content, the text lives under the "#text" key.
Yes when needed. Strings that look like booleans (yes, no, on, off), numbers, dates, or contain special YAML characters (:, #, [, ]) are quoted to prevent the parser misreading them. Plain strings are left unquoted for readability.
No — parsing uses the browser’s DOMParser and emission is local string assembly.
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