Export Access table to XML using dynamic filename with current date

Want to export data from Access table to XML using current date as file name?

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Export data from Access table to XML file using dynamic filename with date and time

Login to Access -> Choose Access table -> Set XML filename template including date -> Export Access to XML using current date as file name

Choose Access and logon.

“Export From Table” for “XML to Access“.

Select XML file type.

1. Choose Access table.

2. Set XML file options. Enter filename template, including date, #yyyy# is for current year, #mm# month, #dd# day, #hh# hour, #mi# minute, #ss# second.

3. Set rows options.

4. Export Access table data to XML file. Dynamically created XML file name using present system time.

After exporting, you can view output XML files.

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Access → XML reference

Type mapping

Value kind	in Access	in XML
Int	Long Integer	<int>1234</int>
Bigint	Long Integer	<bigint>9007199254740993</bigint>
Decimal	Decimal	<decimal>1234.56</decimal>
Float	Double	<float>1.234e10</float>
Text	Text(n)	<char>text</char>
Long text	Long Text	<text>multi-line text</text> (entities for &amp; &lt;)
Date	Date/Time	<date>2026-09-18</date> (xs:date with an XSD)
Datetime	Date/Time	<datetime>2026-09-18T14:30:00Z</datetime> (xs:dateTime)
Binary	OLE Object	<blob>base64...</blob> (xs:base64Binary)
Boolean	Yes/No	<bool>true</bool>
JSON	Long Text	escaped inside an element, or its own sub-tree

Dialect differences

Access 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 Access	in XML
port	(file-based)	—
identifiers	[square brackets]	Attribute values in quotes; entities (& < >) for ...
row limit	SELECT TOP n	—
dates	Date/Time	Text (xs:date / xs:dateTime when an XSD is in play)
long text	MEMO	—
binary	OLE Object	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

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