Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your XSL file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert XSL to another file type
To convert XSL transformations to another format, you need Microsoft Excel or other Web software.
Convert a file to XSL
To convert other file formats to the "Stylesheet Language File" file type, you need software like Microsoft Excel or a similar tool.
About XSL files
The .XSL file extension primarily stands for Extensible Stylesheet Language. These files are XML documents that define how to format or transform other XML files into user-readable outputs, such as HTML, plain text, or structured data for Microsoft Excel. They are standardized by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). A rare secondary use for .XSL files is as a compressed ZIP file containing CAD smart part symbols for Nemetschek Allplan. While powerful, .XSL files present practical challenges. They are strictly code files. Unless they are processed by an XSLT engine, a web browser, or parsed by software like Excel, you only see raw markup. They are useless to non-technical users who just need to read the underlying data. Furthermore, debugging complex XSL transformations is notoriously frustrating, and browser support for older XSL-FO standards is essentially dead. To share the actual rules or data with non-developers, conversion is required. For web publishing, convert your .XSL directly to HTML. For documentation or sharing snippets, convert to TXT or PDF.
Convert.Guru analyzes your XSL file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert XSL file to PDF, XML, CSV, JSON, HTML, XLSX, XSLT, YAML, YML, TOML, INI or CFG, you can use Microsoft Excel or similar software from the "XML Data Transformation" 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 XSL, try Microsoft Excel or another comparable tool in the "XML Data Transformation" category.
The XSL 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 XSL converter.