# Filter XML Files

KeyView can detect many types of XML file, including:

- Generic XML
- Microsoft Office 2003 XML (Word, Excel, and Visio)
- StarOffice/OpenOffice XML (text document, presentation, and spreadsheet)

KeyView automatically filters text from these formats, using default settings that are defined internally.

If necessary, you can customize how to filter text from XML, including the "known" formats such as Microsoft Office XML. In most cases you should not need to modify the settings for the known formats. However, this feature might be useful when you are filtering generic XML files, where the structure of the XML is unknown to KeyView, and you want to extract specific elements but ignore others.

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