Some systems still require XML for data import — legacy ERPs, document management systems, SOAP APIs. The Markdown → XML converter turns a clean Markdown table into well-formed XML without writing a single line of code.
Output Structure
The converter wraps all rows in a <root> element. Each row becomes a child element named after the first column header (sanitised to be a valid XML tag). Column values become child elements of each row.
Column header names are converted to camelCase and stripped of special characters to ensure valid XML element names.
Downloading the XML File
After conversion, click Download to save the output as a .xml file. The file is UTF-8 encoded with an XML declaration at the top.
You can also copy the XML directly from the output pane and paste it into your IDE or XML editor for further processing.
Validating the Output
The generated XML is well-formed but not validated against a schema. If your target system requires a specific XSD schema, you will need to transform the output using XSLT or a script.
For most data interchange purposes — importing into a spreadsheet or feeding into a simple XML parser — the output works without additional processing.