Why does my CSV show <urlset> tags instead of URLs?

If your CSV contains literal '<urlset>', '<url>' or '<loc>' strings as text, the converter treated your XML as plain text and didn't parse it. Two causes. First: the input was malformed XML — open the source in a browser and check that it starts with <?xml version="1.0" or <urlset and that no tags are unclosed or improperly nested. xmlsitemapmaker.com's validator surfaces these errors cleanly. Second: you used Excel's 'Save As CSV' on an XML file, which writes the raw text content. Don't do that — Excel saves as text, not as parsed XML. Use the converter's Paste or URL input instead, which runs a real XML parser before writing the CSV.