XML to TSV

Convert XML records into tab-separated rows.

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XML to TSV Converter Online

The XML to TSV converter turns the records in an XML document into tab-separated values. TSV is the most paste-friendly tabular format there is: copy the output, click a cell in Excel, Google Sheets, or Numbers, and paste — every field lands in its own column instantly.

How rows and columns are built

The converter walks the XML tree and finds the element that repeats most often, such as <book>, <entry>, or <row>. Each occurrence becomes a line. Its attributes and child elements become tab-separated columns, with nested elements flattened into dotted names like author.name. Text elements that carry an attribute produce an extra column, for example price and price@currency.

Options

  • Header row – the first line lists the column names; turn it off for data-only output.
  • Remove namespace prefixes – writes creator instead of dc:creator in the header.
  • Normalize numbers & booleans – rewrites numeric text in canonical form, e.g. 7.50 becomes 7.5; leave it off to keep values exactly as written.

One record per line, guaranteed

TSV has no quoting rules, so the converter keeps it simple and robust: any tab or line break found inside an XML value — common in descriptions and addresses — is replaced with a space. The result is a file where every line is exactly one record and every line has the same number of tabs, which is what line-oriented tools and bulk loaders rely on. Double quotes in the data are kept as ordinary characters.

Command-line friendly

Because tabs rarely appear inside data, TSV lines can be processed safely with Unix tools: cut -f3 extracts a column, sort -t$'\t' -k5 sorts by price. Many data-science tools — pandas, R's read.delim, PostgreSQL COPY — read TSV natively.

Private processing

Conversion happens in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, which makes it suitable for customer records and internal reports.

Prefer commas? Use XML to CSV. Convert TSV onwards with TSV to JSON or TSV to HTML, or go from JSON with JSON to TSV.

Frequently Asked Questions

Tabs almost never occur inside real data, so tab-separated files rarely need quoting. That makes TSV easy to paste into spreadsheets, to process with cut, awk, or sort, and to load into tools like BigQuery or R without escaping surprises.

Yes. Copy the output and paste it into cell A1: spreadsheets split clipboard text on tabs, so each XML field lands in its own column without an import dialog.

Tabs and line breaks inside a value are replaced with spaces, so every record stays on exactly one line and the column count never shifts. Quotes are left untouched because TSV does not use quoting.