Paste an INI file and get XML: each section becomes an element, each key a child element with the value as its text. For moving old settings into software that reads XML.
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INI and XML come from the same era and solve the same problem at opposite levels of formality. INI is a flat list of settings with one level of grouping. XML is a tree with a single root, where every value sits inside a named element. Converting one to the other is a matter of supplying the structure that INI leaves implicit.
XML needs exactly one top-level element, so the whole file is wrapped in a root — config by default; name it whatever the target expects.
[smtp] turns into <smtp>…</smtp>, with its keys as children. Keys outside any section become direct children of the root.
A key given several times, or written key[], becomes several elements with the same name.
Keys with characters that are not allowed in XML names are adjusted with underscores, and & or < in values are escaped.
Mostly in migrations: a .NET application that used to read an INI file and now expects app.config-style XML, a Java service configured through XML, an installer or deployment tool that takes its parameters as an XML document. The converter gives you a correct, well-formed skeleton in seconds. Values are kept as text exactly as written — XML has no types — and comments are dropped; anything worth keeping can be added back as an XML comment.
Each section becomes an element named after the section, containing one child element per key. A dotted section name such as [a.b] becomes nested elements.
Not in this converter. Convert the INI to JSON, prefix the keys you want as attributes with @, and use the JSON to XML converter.
An XML document must have exactly one top-level element. Since an INI file has many top-level sections, they are wrapped in a root whose name you can set.
No. Comment lines are skipped during parsing.
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