Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your XDD file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert XDD to another file type
To convert XDD device descriptions to another format, you need CANopenEditor or other Settings software.
Convert a file to XDD
To convert other file formats to the "Network Device Configuration" file type, you need software like CANopenEditor or a similar tool.
About XDD files
The .XDD file is an XML Device Description file. It stores automation device profiles, specifically hardware capabilities, network node configurations, and object dictionary entries for CANopen and Ethernet POWERLINK industrial systems. You can open and edit these files with specialized network configuration tools like CANopenEditor or automation suites from Schneider Electric. Because the data is structured using standard XML formatting, developers can also inspect them using source code editors. The main disadvantage of the .XDD format is its highly specific, rigid schema. While it is just a text file underneath, standard web browsers and general document readers cannot parse the CANopen object dictionary data into a human-readable format. Without specialized industrial automation software, the raw XML structure is dense, deeply nested, and confusing. It is heavily tied to proprietary industrial networks, making it useless outside of hardware configuration. For general readability, auditing, or documentation, engineers often need to convert .XDD data to CSV, JSON, or standard XML. In many legacy industrial workflows, you must convert .XDD back to older, plain-text EDS (Electronic Data Sheet) files to support older hardware that does not understand XML. This file format is difficult to open or convert effectively because the semantic meaning of the network parameters is tied to the proprietary CANopen protocol. Often, only the original engineering software can correctly compile or read the network data to deploy it to hardware. However, convert.guru can still identify the file format, inspect the file, and show the internal text content. If our analysis detects the supported underlying XML embedded format, viewing the raw nodes or extracting configuration parameters is still possible. Just drag and drop your file to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your XDD file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert XDD file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use CANopenEditor or similar software from the "Automation Device Configuration" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to XDD, try CANopenEditor or another comparable tool in the "Automation Device Configuration" category.
The XDD 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 XDD converter.