XML Lens

Fast XML viewer and explorer for local files and remote URLs.

Tired of your browser freezing or crashing when opening large XML feeds, sitemaps, or product catalogs? XML Lens is a high-performance, developer-focused Chrome extension engineered to open, explore, search, and analyze massive XML documents (up to 100MB+ and 500,000+ nodes) with silky-smooth 60 FPS responsiveness. Powered by a dedicated background Web Worker and a virtualized DOM tree, XML Lens never freezes your main browser thread. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 KEY FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 100% NON-BLOCKING STREAMING PARSER • Chunked streaming SAX parser running entirely in a background Web Worker. • Real-time progress bar with bytes read and node counts. • Instant cancellation support without lagging your browser. 🌳 VIRTUALIZED INTERACTIVE TREE VIEW • Ultra-fast rendering powered by virtual scrolling — handles millions of lines with zero latency. • Clean, modern dark theme with crystal-clear syntax highlighting for tags, attributes, text, CDATA, and comments. • Quick level controls: Expand All, Collapse All, L1, L2, L3 hierarchy views. 🔎 MULTI-MODE INSTANT SEARCH • Text Search: Full-text search across tags, attribute names, attribute values, and content. • Tag Search: Filter by tag name with exact match toggle. • Attribute Search: Find elements by specific attribute names and values. • XPath Lite: Fast queries like //category[@id="136"], /shop/offers, or //*[@available="true"]. • Auto-Reveal: Automatically expands all ancestor nodes and smoothly scrolls directly to the match. 🔬 DEEP NODE INSPECTOR • Inspect element details: type, depth level, child count, full attribute table, and text contents. • Human-readable XPath path generation. • 1-Click Copy tools: Copy Value, Copy Attributes, Copy Path, or Copy XML Subtree with proper entity escaping. 📊 DOCUMENT STATISTICS & INSIGHTS • Instant document overview: total nodes, element count, attribute count, maximum depth, and parse duration. • Interactive Top-20 tag distribution with visual percentage bars. 📁 MULTI-SOURCE INPUT • Open local XML files via File Picker or drag-and-drop directly into the window. • Stream remote XML feeds via HTTP/HTTPS URLs with on-demand permission prompts. 🔒 100% PRIVATE & OFFLINE READY • Zero external servers. Zero telemetry. Zero trackers. • All parsing and inspection happens 100% locally on your machine. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌨️ KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Ctrl+F / Cmd+F — Focus search bar • Enter — Run search / jump to next match • Shift + Enter — Jump to previous match • ↑ / ↓ — Navigate visible tree nodes • → — Expand selected node • ← — Collapse node / Jump to parent ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💡 PERFECT FOR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Backend & Frontend Developers working with XML APIs, SOAP, and feeds. • E-commerce Specialists managing YML, Google Shopping, and product export feeds. • SEO Experts inspecting massive sitemaps (sitemap.xml). • QA Engineers debugging XML payloads and data structures. Install XML Lens and experience fast, crash-free XML exploration today!