RNC Converter

Extract text from RELAX NG schemas (RNC)

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How to extract text from your RNC file

Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your RNC file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert RNC to another file type

To convert RNC schemas to another format, you need Oxygen XML Editor or other Developer software.

Convert a file to RNC

To convert other file formats to the "Schema Definition File" file type, you need software like Oxygen XML Editor or a similar tool.

About RNC files

The .RNC file extension serves two distinct technical communities: XML developers and retro computing enthusiasts. primarily, it represents the RELAX NG Compact Syntax, a simplified, non-XML format used to define the structure and validation rules of XML documents. While developers prefer .RNC for its readability and brevity compared to verbose XML syntax, it poses significant compatibility challenges. Most enterprise parsers, IDEs, and validation libraries natively require the XML-based RNG or the industry-standard XSD (W3C XML Schema). Consequently, developers frequently need to convert .RNC files to ensure interoperability with Java or .NET XML pipelines.

Secondarily, .RNC denotes Rob Northen Compression, a legacy compression algorithm dominant in 1990s Amiga and DOS gaming. These archives are proprietary and highly efficient for their time but are completely unsupported by modern archivers like WinRAR or 7-Zip. Users encountering these files are typically looking to extract textures, audio, or level data from classic titles.

Best Conversion Targets:

For XML Validation: Convert .RNC to XSD or DTD to maximize compatibility with standard XML parsers.
For Interoperability: Convert to RNG (RELAX NG XML Syntax) to maintain the schema logic in a strictly XML format.
For Game Assets: Decompress to raw binary or standard formats like DAT or BIN using specialized retro tools.

Convert.Guru analyzes your RNC file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted ENC, XPR, TEI and ESY files.

FAQ

If you want to convert RNC file to ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR, GZ, BZ2, XZ, LZMA, CAB, ACE, ARJ or LHA, you can use Oxygen XML Editor or similar software from the "XML Schema & Game Archive" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert XXE, 7Z, Z, PAK, LHA, DEB, UUE, TAR, LZH, ZIP, PKG or RAR files to RNC, try Oxygen XML Editor or another comparable tool in the "XML Schema & Game Archive" category.

The RNC Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our RNC converter.