XML Encoder

The XML Encoder converts raw text containing special characters into properly escaped XML entities, ensuring your strings are safe to embed in any XML document. Characters like <, >, &, ", and ' carry special meaning in XML syntax — leaving them unescaped will break parsing, corrupt data, or introduce security vulnerabilities. This tool handles all necessary transformations automatically, producing standards-compliant output every time.

For developers working with XML-based APIs, configuration files, data feeds, or serialization formats, manually escaping content is tedious and error-prone. A single unescaped ampersand in a product description or a stray angle bracket in user-generated content can invalidate an entire XML document. This tool eliminates that risk by providing instant, reliable encoding — making it an essential part of any XML workflow.

Using the tool is straightforward: paste or type your raw text into the input field and the encoded XML output is generated instantly. For example, the string <script>alert('Hello & World')</script> becomes <script>alert('Hello & World')</script>. Every reserved XML character is mapped to its corresponding named or numeric entity, and the result is ready to be safely inserted into an XML element or attribute value.

The encoder handles all five predefined XML entities: & for &, < for <, > for >, " for ", and ' for '. These cover the full set of characters that can break well-formed XML under any compliant parser. Unicode characters and multi-line content are also supported without issue.

One important edge case to be aware of: this tool encodes the content intended to go inside XML tags — it does not generate or modify the surrounding XML structure itself. If you are building complete XML documents programmatically, you should encode individual field values before inserting them, rather than encoding an entire XML string, which would double-encode already valid markup.