SQL to XML

Convert SQL INSERT rows into an XML document.

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SQL to XML Converter Online

The SQL to XML converter takes the data rows from INSERT statements and publishes them as a well-formed XML document. It helps when a legacy integration, a reporting engine, or an XSLT pipeline expects XML but your data arrives as a SQL dump or a migration script.

Output layout

All tables go into a single root element. Every row becomes an element named after its table, and every column becomes a child element:

<database>
  <products>
    <id>1</id>
    <sku>KB-01</sku>
    <price>89</price>
  </products>
</database>

Table and column names that are not valid XML names — for instance names with spaces or that start with digits — are cleaned up automatically, and values are entity-escaped so characters like & and < never break the document.

Options

  • Root element – the name of the outer element, database by default.
  • Indentation – pretty-print with two or four spaces or tabs, or minify for transfer.
  • XML declaration – include or omit the <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> line.

A validity summary under the output confirms that the generated XML parses correctly and reports its element count.

Parsing details

The SQL tokenizer handles backtick, double-quote, and bracket identifiers, multi-row VALUES lists, escaped quotes, and comments. Statements that do not insert data (CREATE INDEX, UPDATE, SET NAMES) are ignored. If a script contains no INSERT at all, you get an explanatory error instead of an empty document.

Typical scenarios

Feeding reference data from a MySQL backup into a SOAP service, producing test documents for an XML schema, or handing a partner a data extract in the format their importer demands are all one paste away.

Next steps

Query the result with the XPath Tester, reshape it with an XSL Transform, or browse the tree in the XML Viewer. For other formats, see SQL to JSON and SQL to HTML; to convert XML back into a table, use XML to CSV.

Frequently Asked Questions

Each inserted row becomes an element named after its table, and each column becomes a child element holding the value. Rows from a products table therefore appear as repeated <products> elements inside the root.

A NULL column is written as an empty, self-closing element (for example <price/>), so the element is still present and every row keeps the same structure.

Yes. Enter any name in the Root element field; the default is <database>. You can also drop the <?xml version="1.0"?> declaration when you want to embed the fragment inside another XML document.