Examples associated with extensible markup language (XML) file condensing are described. On example includes generating a set of indexes from an XML file. The set of indexes may include a tag index that indexes tag terms used in the XML file, an attribute indexes attribute terms in the XML file, and a value index that indexes value terms in the XML file. The example also includes condensing the XML file into a condensed version of the XML file by translating the XML file according to the indexes. The example also includes generating a translated file. The translated file may be made from the set of indexes and the condensed version of the XML file.