XML Decode Online Tool

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Overview

Decodes XML encoded text into plain text. XML text is contained inside XML elements and contains character entities which represent different text characters. Character entities are used to escape reserved characters used by XML to represent markup and to represent Unicode characters in ASCII encoded text.

There are three ways of representing character entities, either by unicode decimal code, unicode hexadecimal code, or a predefined entity.

XML Character Entity Formats
Format	Usage
Unicode decimal code	&# {decimal code};
Unicode hexadecimal code	&#x {hexdecimal code};
Predefined code	See list below

XML Predefined Entities
Character	Predefined Entity	XML Usage
<	<	XML tag open bracket
>	>	XML tag close bracket
&	&	First character of escaped character
"	"	Surrounds a string literal
'	'	Surrounds a string literal