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XML Escape and Unescape

Escape XML text safely or decode standard and numeric XML character references.

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How to use this tool

  1. Paste Text text or choose a UTF-8 file; a chosen file takes precedence.
  2. Choose escape or unescape. Unescape accepts text entities, not markup, and rejects unknown entities or invalid XML characters.
  3. Select Process data, review the result, and download it. Use Reset to clear the working data.

Examples

Tom & Alice <3

Limitations

XML 1.0, UTF-8, at most 40 nesting levels and 200,000 nodes. No DOCTYPE/custom entities/external resolution. Parser normalizes line endings, entity spelling, and attribute whitespace. 5 MiB input, 20 MiB output.

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