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Batch extract XML files from MySQL TEXT (CLOB) column
Run DBBlobEditor, login to MySQL.
Click “Start New Task – Export LOB To Files” at task dialog.
then show the wizard.
1. Configure export settings.
2. Bulk export MySQL TEXT (CLOB) to XML files.
then you can see exporting results
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MySQL → XML reference
Type mapping
| Value kind | in MySQL | 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
MySQL 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 MySQL | 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 |
|---|---|
| MySQL | mysqldump, or mysql -e "SELECT ..." > out.csv |
| MySQL (load) | mysqlimport, or LOAD DATA INFILE |
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