HTML to XML Online — HTML Tags to XML Elements
Turn HTML tags into XML elements in your browser. Nothing is uploaded — conversion stays on this tab.
Examples
Basic example
Input
Output
Section fragment → XML
Input
Output
How to Convert HTML to XML
Paste an HTML fragment in the editor and click Convert. FastMinify parses it with the browser DOMParser (text/html) in this tab, then serializes that tree to XML. Markup is not uploaded — there is no server round-trip.
When the input is a single-root fragment — one element child of body, like the article and section samples above — that tag is the XML root. The output starts with <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> and does not wrap an extra <root> around that element.
If you paste several top-level nodes (two paragraphs, mixed text and tags, or a body with more than one child), the serializer wraps them in <root>. A JSON body key from the HTML parser is never unwrapped into a bare XML document: that path always goes through <root>. That wrapper is how mixed fragments stay one XML document without inventing a fake html shell.
Copy the result or download it after a successful conversion. To turn XML toward HTML tables and lists, use the sister page XML to HTML. That page keeps its own title and uses a different engine; it is not a lossless reverse of this serializer.
What This Conversion Preserves
The HTML parser lowercases tag names (DIV becomes div). Attributes survive on the matching XML element. Repeated sibling tags become repeated XML elements, not a single merged node.
Comments and processing instructions are dropped: only element and text nodes are walked. A full HTML document is not a byte-accurate dump of <html> or <head>. Conversion uses doc.body children. A document title is included only when the parser builds a { title, body } envelope (not the single-element unwrap path); even then it serializes under <root>, not as a reconstructed <head>.
Empty or void tags may serialize as self-closing (<br/>, <img …/>) when they have no inner markup. Browser DOMParser is required: this converter runs in the tab, not on a server.
This is not a stylesheet transform, not schema validation, not HTML Tidy, and not XHTML polyglot output.
About these options
CSV exports: choose a delimiter (Auto follows locale — semicolon on /fr), RFC-minimal vs always-quoted fields, line endings, and whether to emit a header row. CSV imports: delimiter is auto-detected from the first line (comma, semicolon, tab, or pipe) — toggle whether row 1 holds column names. JSON output (XML, YAML, or CSV sources): indentation (including compact one-line) and optional recursive key sort. JSON → XML: toggle pretty-printing and indent width. YAML output: indent width, readable vs tighter layout, and deterministic string quoting (there is no source YAML file to “preserve”). XML comments are not represented in the intermediate JSON tree.
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HTML → XML FAQ
Privacy and limits
Is my HTML uploaded to a server?
No. Conversion uses the browser’s DOMParser in this tab. FastMinify does not receive the markup.
Does any HTML document become XSLT-ready XML?
No. A single-element fragment becomes that element as the XML root; several top-level nodes are wrapped in a root element. This is not an XSLT engine, schema validator, or HTML Tidy.
Can I download the XML?
Yes — use Download after a successful conversion.
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