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XLSX to XML

For the XSLT, the import and the system that only speaks XML.

More free conversions, where you upload. The Fylane extension does the same work inside any upload form, on its own free share every day.About the extension

How to convert XLSX to XML

  1. Drop the workbook.
  2. Nothing to choose.
  3. Press Convert and download the XML.

What happens to your file

The workbook is read directly on Fylane’s servers — it is XML in a zip, but Excel’s own XML is not one a person or an XSLT wants to walk — and written as one plain document: a workbook element, a sheet element per sheet with its name, a row element per row, a cell element per cell with ref, type and formula attributes and the value as text. Merged ranges are listed at the end of each sheet.

Twenty sheets and five thousand rows a sheet at most. Dates are the serial numbers Excel stores, typed as numbers.

Questions

Can I get my own XML schema?

Not here — this is one fixed, documented shape. An XSLT over it reaches any schema; that is what the reference and type attributes are for.

Do this in code

curl -X POST https://api.fylane.dev/v1/jobs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FYLANE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "file_id": "<file id>",
    "operation": "sheet.parse",
    "options": {
      "format": "xml"
    }
  }'

The same operation, sheet.parse — The workbook itself — or a CSV as a one-sheet one: sheets, values, types, formulas, merged ranges, as JSON or by `format` as XML; dates as the serials Excel stores. Upload first with the quickstart; every option is on the operations page. 500 free credits a month, then $5 per thousand.