CSV to XML Converter – Free & Instant Online Tool

name,age,city
Alice,30,London
Bob,25,Berlin

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root>
  <row>
    <name>Alice</name>
    <age>30</age>
    <city>London</city>
  </row>
  <row>
    <name>Bob</name>
    <age>25</age>
    <city>Berlin</city>
  </row>
</root>

Turn spreadsheet data into structured XML instantly

Got a CSV export from Excel, Google Sheets, or a database dump and need it in XML? Paste it above and get clean, well-formed XML in seconds — no signup, no installation, and nothing uploaded anywhere.

XML (Extensible Markup Language) wraps each value in named tags, making data easy to read by machines and humans alike. It's the format many APIs, legacy systems, and config pipelines expect.

How to convert CSV to XML

1. Paste or upload your CSV into the input area above.
2. Make sure CSV is selected as the source format and XML as the target.
3. The converted XML appears instantly in the output panel.
4. Click Copy or Download to grab the result.

That's the entire workflow. No button to press, no waiting — the output updates as you type.

Worked example: a product catalogue CSV

Here's a realistic starting point — a short export from an e-commerce system.

Input CSV:

id,product,price,in_stock
101,Wireless Keyboard,49.99,true
102,USB-C Hub,29.95,false

Resulting XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root>
  <row>
    <id>101</id>
    <product>Wireless Keyboard</product>
    <price>49.99</price>
    <in_stock>true</in_stock>
  </row>
  <row>
    <id>102</id>
    <product>USB-C Hub</product>
    <price>29.95</price>
    <in_stock>false</in_stock>
  </row>
</root>

The column headers become the XML element names. Each CSV row becomes a <row> element nested inside a <root> wrapper. Numbers like 49.99 stay unquoted; text stays as text.

How to do this in Python or JavaScript

For scripts or CI pipelines, you can do the same conversion in code.

Python

import csv, xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

def csv_to_xml(csv_file, xml_file):
    root = ET.Element('root')
    with open(csv_file, newline='', encoding='utf-8') as f:
        reader = csv.DictReader(f)
        for row in reader:
            row_el = ET.SubElement(root, 'row')
            for key, value in row.items():
                child = ET.SubElement(row_el, key)
                child.text = value
    tree = ET.ElementTree(root)
    ET.indent(tree, space='  ')   # Python 3.9+
    tree.write(xml_file, encoding='utf-8', xml_declaration=True)

csv_to_xml('products.csv', 'products.xml')

JavaScript (Node.js)

const fs = require('fs');
const { parse } = require('csv-parse/sync'); // npm install csv-parse

const rows = parse(fs.readFileSync('products.csv'), { columns: true });

let xml = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root>
';
for (const row of rows) {
  xml += '  <row>
';
  for (const [key, val] of Object.entries(row)) {
    xml += `    <${key}>${val}</${key}>
`;
  }
  xml += '  </row>
';
}
xml += '</root>';
fs.writeFileSync('products.xml', xml);

The online tool above is ideal when you're doing this once or just want to check the output structure before committing to code.

How it works under the hood

The converter parses your CSV using the first row as the header (column names). Each subsequent row becomes an XML <row> element, and each cell becomes a child element named after its column. The whole thing is wrapped in a <root> element, producing a valid, well-formed XML document (as defined by the W3C XML specification).

Quoted CSV fields — like "Smith, John" — are handled correctly, so commas inside values don't break the output. Special XML characters such as <, >, and & in your data are automatically escaped to keep the XML valid.

Everything runs entirely in your browser. Nothing is sent to a server. Your data is private.

When to use CSV to XML — and when to use something else

If your downstream step also involves JSON, the JSON Beautifier and JSON Validator are handy companions — especially if you're comparing XML and JSON outputs from the same source data. For compressing JSON output, try the JSON Minifier.

Paste your CSV into the tool above and get well-formed XML in seconds — no account needed, completely free.