Private by design. No servers, ever.
Turn XML into clean Markdown for LLMs, agents, and docs. Then explore, edit, compare, merge, query, and validate it privately on your Mac.
Private by design
No uploads. No accounts. No product analytics. Just local processing, native performance, and your files under your control.
Read our privacy promiseParsing, formatting, XPath, comparison, merge, and conversion all run on-device in a native macOS app.
No file uploads, no product analytics, no accounts, and no tracking identifiers of any kind.
Remote stylesheet imports, remote document calls, and external entities are never loaded.
Go from raw markup to a clear answer without switching tools—or sending a file to the web.
New in XML Lens 1.8
Convert a full document—or one Visual Map subtree—into readable Markdown on your Mac. Choose Smart, Outline, Table, or Code fence output, then copy the result or save a .md file.
Combine two to five well-formed documents in a chosen order. Wrap them under a new root, or append children when every file already shares the same root. The merged XML stays on your Mac.
Turn dense markup into a clear, explorable hierarchy. Follow parent–child relationships, inspect values and namespaces, and move from any node straight back to its source.
Create clean Markdown with Smart, Outline, Table, or Code fence output, then copy it or save a local .md file.
Edit syntax-highlighted XML while the structure tree, breadcrumbs, attributes, and generated XPath stay in sync.
Review editable documents side by side, highlight changes, and export a result the rest of the team can use.
Combine two to five well-formed files locally. Wrap them under a new root, or append children when the roots already match.
Run namespace-aware queries, preview matches, and save the expressions you reach for again and again.
Check well-formedness and validate against a schema before malformed XML reaches your next environment.
Transform XML with a local stylesheet and inspect the result without leaving your workspace.
Apply a workflow to multiple files safely. Originals are never overwritten, so automation stays reversible.
Choose Dark, Light, Ocean, Forest, or Sepia, then adjust editor, tree, and compare text with familiar macOS zoom shortcuts.
Move between XML, JSON, YAML, and CSV locally—but XML does not map perfectly to those formats. Mixed content, namespaces, comments, ordering, and other details may be lost, so XML Lens shows a warning before a potentially lossy conversion.
Read the conversion limits
XML workflows
XML Lens is organized around the job you are doing—not a drawer full of disconnected utilities.
Open a file, paste from the clipboard, type directly, or drag XML into the editor.
Inspect structure, navigate nodes, search, run XPath, and validate.
Format, convert, or apply local XSLT 1.0 while keeping loss warnings and remote-resource limits visible.
Copy, export, compare, merge, or batch-process the result with confidence.
Run namespace-aware XPath against the current document, see results immediately, and save useful snippets for later.
/bookstore/book[@category='programming']/title✓ Example result: 2 matches in 38 ms
<title>Learning XML</title><title>Swift for macOS</title>This is a static product example. In the app, run the expression against the open document and inspect live match previews.
Still unsure? Ask us directly.
Yes. XML Lens converts XML to Markdown locally with Smart, Outline, Table, and Code fence styles. Copy the result, save a .md file, compare estimated token counts, or copy one Visual Map subtree as focused context for an LLM or agent.
XML Lens is a native XML viewer and formatter for macOS. It combines syntax highlighting, a synchronized structure tree, search, formatting, minification, XPath, comparison, and merge in one focused app.
Yes. Visual Map turns an XML document into an interactive node-and-connector hierarchy. You can pan, zoom, collapse branches, inspect nodes, and reveal any element in source while the document stays on your Mac.
Yes. XML Lens can pretty-print XML for reading or review, minify it for compact payloads, strip comments, and apply Compact for API or Readable for review presets.
Yes. XML Lens compares two editable XML documents, highlights additions, removals, and changed lines, and exports the result as Markdown, HTML, or PDF.
Yes. XML Lens merges two to five well-formed XML files locally. Wrap documents under a new root, or combine children when every file already shares the same root. Merge is not a Git-style three-way merge.
Yes. Run XPath 1.0 expressions, inspect match previews, save useful queries, and pin frequently used XPath snippets for quick reuse.
No. XML content, pasted text, filenames, file paths, XPath expressions, search terms, and exported reports stay on the user’s Mac. XML Lens does not collect product analytics.
Conversion between XML and JSON, YAML, or CSV is local but can be lossy. Mixed content, namespaces, comments, ordering, and other XML details may not survive a round trip, so XML Lens shows a warning before potentially lossy conversions.
Yes. XSLT Studio runs local XSLT 1.0 transformations. Remote stylesheet resources, remote document calls, external entities, and remote imports or includes are not loaded.
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