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Batch export data from Percona tables to XML files
Login to Percona -> Select Percona tables -> Set XML file options -> Export Percona tables to XML
Choose Percona and logon.
Click “Export All Tables” at task dialog.
Select XML file type.
1. Select Percona tables to export.
2. Set XML options.
3. See Percona tables to be exported.
4. Set rows options.
5. Export Percona data to XML files.
After exporting, you can view output XML files.
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See also:
- Export Percona table to XML
- Export Percona query results to XML
- Export multiple similar Percona tables to one XML file
Percona → XML reference
Type mapping
| Value kind | in Percona | in XML |
|---|---|---|
| Int | INT | <int>1234</int> |
| Bigint | BIGINT | <bigint>9007199254740993</bigint> |
| Decimal | DECIMAL(p,s) | <decimal>1234.56</decimal> |
| Float | DOUBLE | <float>1.234e10</float> |
| Text | VARCHAR(n) | <char>text</char> |
| Long text | LONGTEXT | <text>multi-line text</text> (entities for & <) |
| Date | DATE | <date>2026-09-18</date> (xs:date with an XSD) |
| Datetime | DATETIME | <datetime>2026-09-18T14:30:00Z</datetime> (xs:dateTime) |
| Binary | LONGBLOB | <blob>base64...</blob> (xs:base64Binary) |
| Boolean | TINYINT(1) | <bool>true</bool> |
| JSON | JSON | escaped inside an element, or its own sub-tree |
Dialect differences
Percona is a database server and XML is a file format, so the gap is wider than a dialect difference – the rows below are where values and structure stop lining up.
| Property | in Percona | in XML |
|---|---|---|
| port | 3306 | — |
| identifiers | `backtick` | Attribute values in quotes; entities (& < >) for ... |
| row limit | LIMIT n | — |
| dates | DATETIME, TIMESTAMP, DATE, TIME | Text (xs:date / xs:dateTime when an XSD is in play) |
| long text | TINYTEXT / TEXT / MEDIUMTEXT / LONGTEXT | — |
| binary | BLOB / TINYBLOB / LONGBLOB | base64Binary / hexBinary inside text |
| separator | — | Tags, not delimiters |
| encoding | — | Declared in the XML declaration |
| typing | — | None in the markup itself |
| shape | Tables of rows and columns | Arbitrary tree |
| ceiling | — | Whole document is usually parsed into memory |
Command line
| Side | Command |
|---|---|
| Percona | mysqldump |
| Percona (load) | mysqlimport, or LOAD DATA INFILE |
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