Turn XML data files into YAML. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.
Drop XML files here
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Drop XML files onto the box above, or click it to choose them. ToAny reads the file's contents to detect the type, so a wrong extension does not matter.
Press Convert. There is nothing else to set. The work happens in this tab.
Save the YAML, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
The XML to YAML converter is part of this page and runs inside your browser. Your data files are never sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
Nothing has to travel to a server and back, so the conversion starts the moment you press Convert, even on a slow connection.
No sign-up, no email address and no watermark. Add several files and download them together as a ZIP.
XML is verbose and tedious to work with in most modern tooling. YAML is easier for people to read and edit than JSON and allows comments. XML is at home in document-like data, feeds and enterprise systems; YAML is the usual choice for configuration files written by people.
Keys, nesting and values carry over. XML attributes appear as keys starting with @_, so <a id="1"> becomes a key @_id.
XML wraps data in nested tags with attributes. It is verbose but strict, and remains the basis of RSS feeds, SVG, Office documents and many enterprise interfaces. Its attributes and mixed content have no exact equivalent in JSON.
Opens in Any text editor or browser
XML converterYAML expresses the same structures as JSON using indentation instead of brackets, and allows comments. It is the usual choice for configuration in tools like Docker Compose, Kubernetes and GitHub Actions.
Opens in Any text editor
YAML converter| XMLXML data | YAMLYAML data | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | Extensible Markup Language | YAML Ain't Markup Language |
| Type | Structured data (text) | Structured data (text) |
| Compression | None | None |
| Introduced | 1998, by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | 2001, by Clark Evans, Ingy döt Net and Oren Ben-Kiki |
| Opens in | Any text editor or browser | Any text editor |
| Best for | Document-like data, feeds and enterprise systems | Configuration files written by people |
| File extension | .xml | .yaml, .yml |
No. The XML to YAML conversion runs inside your browser, on your own phone or computer. The file is not sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
The values are kept. Anything YAML has no way to express, such as formatting, formulas or nesting, is simplified or left out.
Yes. Add as many as you like, convert them together and download each result or all of them as one ZIP.
The steps are the same everywhere because ToAny runs in the web browser: open this page in a current version of Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox, add the XML file, press Convert and save the YAML. There is nothing to install.
Yes. Data files up to 300 MB are accepted; a larger file is refused with a message. Beyond that the limit is your device's memory, since nothing is uploaded; a computer copes with large files better than a phone.