# Utilities to convert CSV files or tab-delimited text to Moodle Glossary XML

**glossaryXMLconverter**

glossaryXMLconverter is a <span class="caps">GUI</span> utility program for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (does not run on 10.4 Tiger). This can convert <span class="caps">CSV</span> files (encoded in <span class="caps">ASCII</span> or <span class="caps">UTF</span>-8) from Apple’s Numbers or Google Spreadsheet to an <span class="caps">XML</span> file that Moodle Glossary Tool can import. It also accepts drag&amp;drop of these files and drag&amp;drop of the selected MS Excel cells. Concept (1st column) and Definition (2nd) are necessary, but Category (3rd) and Keyword (4th) are optional. Read the included Read Me file for more information.

**glossaryXMLconverter.html**

glossaryXMLconverter.html is an <span class="caps">HTML</span> page with Javascript and should work on most of web browsers (tested on IE and Firefox on Windows and Safari, Firefox, and Camino on Mac OS X). This converts tab-delimited text (copied/pasted from Excel, Apple’s Numbers, text editors, etc.) to <span class="caps">XML</span> that can be imported to Moodle Glossary Tool. Concept (1st column) and Definition (2nd) are necessary, but Category (3rd) and Keyword (4th) are optional. A user needs to copy&amp;paste the generated <span class="caps">XML</span> code to a text editor file and save it. If the input text includes non-<span class="caps">ASCII</span> characters, the file should be saved with <span class="caps">UTF</span>-8 encoding (Unicode).

Currently, these are available on Moodle.org forum on Glossary and downloadable from the following link (you need to login as yourself or as a guest to the site).

glossaryXMLconverter + glossaryXMLconverter.html

[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=79120#p394626](http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=79120#p394626)

glossaryXMLconverer.html <span class="caps">ONLY</span>

[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=91224#p404192](http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=91224#p404192)