XLS to XML - Convert document online
Conversion Results:
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How to convert XLS to XML:
1. Click the "Choose Files" button to select multiple files from your local device, or click the "URL" button to choose an online file.
2. Choose a target document format. The target document format can be PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, HTML, TXT, CSV, RTF, ODT, ODS, ODP, XPS, or OXPS. Note that each target format can only be converted from certain source formats. For example, it can convert DOC to DOCX, but it cannot convert DOC to XLSX. When choosing a target format, the available source formats that can be converted to it will be listed.
3. Click the "Convert Now!" button to start batch conversion. The output files will be listed in the "Conversion Results" section. Click the icon to show the file QR code or save the file to cloud storage services such as Google Drive, OneDrive, or Dropbox.
XLS vs XML:
| Name | XLS | XML |
| Full name | Microsoft Excel Binary File Format | Extensible Markup Language |
| File extension | .xls | .xml |
| MIME | application/vnd.ms-excel | application/xml, text/xml |
| Developed by | Microsoft | World Wide Web Consortium |
| Type of format | Spreadsheet | Markup language |
| Introduction | Microsoft Excel up until 2007 version used a proprietary binary file format called Excel Binary File Format (.XLS) as its primary format. Excel 2007 uses Office Open XML as its primary file format, an XML-based format that followed after a previous XML-based format called "XML Spreadsheet". | In computing, Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. The design goals of XML emphasize simplicity, generality, and usability across the Internet. |
| Technical details | OpenOffice.org has created documentation of the Excel format. Since then Microsoft made the Excel binary format specification available to freely download. | XML is a textual data format with strong support via Unicode for different human languages. Several schema systems exist to aid in the definition of XML-based languages, while programmers have developed many application programming interfaces (APIs) to aid the processing of XML data. |
| Associated programs | Microsoft Office, LibreOffice, Kingsoft Office, Google Docs. | Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice, Apple iWork |
| Sample file | sample.xls | sample.xml |
| Wikipedia | XLS on Wikipedia | XML on Wikipedia |