# from xml Parse text as `.xml` and create table. Use this when nushell cannot determine the input file extension. Syntax: `from xml` ## Examples Let's say we've got a file in `xml` format but the file extension is different so Nu can't auto-format it: ```shell > open world.txt Africa Antarctica Asia Australia Europe North America South America ``` We can use `from xml` to read the input like a `xml` file: ```shell > open world.txt | from xml ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ world ──────────────── [table 7 rows] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ```