# XSL to XML : a script for non-XML "speakers"?
**URL:** https://community.crossref.org/t/xsl-to-xml-a-script-for-non-xml-speakers/13529
**Category:** XML Deposit
**Tags:** xml\_support, content-registration
**Created:** [2 April 2025 17:43 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/xsl-to-xml-a-script-for-non-xml-speakers/13529 "2025-04-02T17:43:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@publications\_su](https://community.crossref.org/u/publications_su)
#### Post date: [2 April 2025 17:43 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/xsl-to-xml-a-script-for-non-xml-speakers/13529/1 "2025-04-02T17:43:21Z")
Hello, We deposit our DOIs with CrossRef in two different ways:
- either via OJS
- or via the web deposit form.
Filing the deposit form takes time. I would like to save some using XML files in order to avoid completing the DOI several times (if we want a complete DOI that goes beyond simple information on title, author, etc.). But I don’t “speak” XML.
**I wonder if there is a script or scripts available to format an excel / calc table into an xml file for CrossRef.** Basically: there would be one doi per line in the excel file, with all the information needed for the doi (title, author, orcid, abstract, references, etc.) and a script would generate an xml file from this table. I have already obtained such a script from colleagues, but it doesn’t harvest all the metadata (e.g. abstracts are missing). In short, I wonder if a complete script exists in the crossref community.
Thanks for your help!
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### Author:  [@Shayn](https://community.crossref.org/u/Shayn)
#### Post date: [2 April 2025 18:42 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/xsl-to-xml-a-script-for-non-xml-speakers/13529/2 "2025-04-02T18:42:16Z")
Hello, and thanks for your question.
That’s not something Crossref has available, because our metadata schema is too large and complex to readily support a conversion from a tabular format. (xml is nested/hierarchical - that makes it very hard to represent with just the two dimensions available in a table)
If it happens that the metadata you’re supplying for your content items is relatively minimal and extremely consistent, it wouldn’t be impossible. And, I believe that there have been some members who have manage to write their own custom conversions from csv to xml. So, I look forward to seeing if anyone can demonstrate that working.
Best,
Shayn