Extract Plain Text from XML

Sometimes you need the words out of an XML document — a transcript, an article, a log — without any markup. Extract Plain Text from XML walks the parsed tree, collects every text node and discards tags, attributes, comments and processing instructions.

You choose how blocks are joined (lines, spaces, commas or tabs), whether whitespace is trimmed and skipped, and whether each block is labelled with its element name. The result is clean, readable text ready to copy, download or print — all processed locally in your browser.

• Markup removal: tags, attributes, comments and processing instructions are discarded.
• Text collection: every text node, including CDATA, is captured.
• Separator choice: newline, space, comma or tab between text blocks.
• Trim and skip options: remove padding whitespace and ignore whitespace-only nodes.
• Element labels: optionally prefix each block with its parent element name.
• Parse-based extraction: uses the browser XML parser, so markup is understood, not guessed.
• Live updates: re-extract as you type with the live toggle.
• Copy, download or print: the text is a click from your clipboard.
• Private by design: nothing leaves your browser.

1. Paste your XML or load it from a file.
2. Choose the separator — newline for a list, space or comma for a stream.
3. Set trim and skip options to control whitespace.
4. Enable element labels for a flat key: value listing.
5. Copy or download the extracted text.

Example 1 — Blog and article content. Strip the markup from an article feed to get the readable body text for previews and indexes.

Example 2 — Log analysis. Pull the message text out of XML log entries, one per line, and grep or load it into analysis tools.

Example 3 — Documentation. Generate a plain-text version of XML documentation, with element labels producing a readable key: value reference.

Example 4 — Accessibility. Provide a text-only rendering of content that would otherwise only exist behind markup.

• Markup-free content — tags and attributes gone in one step.
• Flexible output — separators and labels shape the text to your use.
• Parse-accurate — text is found through the XML parser, not regex.
• Readable results — trim and skip options remove indentation noise.
• Free and private — local extraction, nothing uploaded.