Export SQLite table to XML using dynamic filename with current date

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

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

Choose SQLite and logon.

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

Select XML file type.

1. Choose SQLite 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 SQLite 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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SQLite → XML reference

Type mapping

Value kind	in SQLite	in XML
Int	INTEGER	<int>1234</int>
Bigint	INTEGER	<bigint>9007199254740993</bigint>
Decimal	NUMERIC	<decimal>1234.56</decimal>
Float	REAL	<float>1.234e10</float>
Text	TEXT	<char>text</char>
Long text	TEXT	<text>multi-line text</text> (entities for &amp; &lt;)
Date	TEXT	<date>2026-09-18</date> (xs:date with an XSD)
Datetime	TEXT	<datetime>2026-09-18T14:30:00Z</datetime> (xs:dateTime)
Binary	BLOB	<blob>base64...</blob> (xs:base64Binary)
Boolean	INTEGER	<bool>true</bool>
JSON	TEXT	escaped inside an element, or its own sub-tree

Dialect differences

SQLite 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 SQLite	in XML
port	(file-based)	—
identifiers	"double quotes" or [brackets]	Attribute values in quotes; entities (& < >) for ...
row limit	LIMIT n	—
dates	TEXT (no date type)	Text (xs:date / xs:dateTime when an XSD is in play)
long text	TEXT	—
binary	BLOB	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
SQLite	sqlite3 .dump
SQLite (load)	.import (sqlite3)

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