XML to JSON

Convert XML from clipboard or current document/selection to JSON

Are you using Code and working with XML builder tools day by day?

XML to JSON can help you create the final object, just edit the variables that need dynamic data instead of typing each object key, attribute and no typos mistake. Converted data can be use for xmlbuilder, xml2js or your expected format using configuration options.

Here are just some of the features that XML to JSON provides:

• Convert XML from document or selection to JSON
• Convert XML from clipboard to JSON

📝 Changelog

See the release notes for the full set of changes

🏙 Preview

🔧 Configuration

By default, it's following xml2js default options. If you wanna change, choose one of pre-defined options (eg: xmlbuilder) or select custom and edit in settings.json. Below is an example:

{
    "xml2json.defaultSettings": "custom",
    "xml2json.options": {
        "attrkey": "@",
        "explicitArray": false,
        "mergeAttrs": true
    }
}

Availablie options:

Following xml2js

Name	Default	Description
attrkey	$	Prefix that is used to access the attributes. Version 0.1 default was @.
charkey	_	Prefix that is used to access the character content. Version 0.1 default was #.
explicitCharkey	false
trim	false	Trim the whitespace at the beginning and end of text nodes.
normalizeTags	false	Normalize all tag names to lowercase.
normalize	false	Trim whitespaces inside text nodes.
explicitRoot	true	Set this if you want to get the root node in the resulting object.
emptyTag		what will the value of empty nodes be.
explicitArray	true	Always put child nodes in an array if true; otherwise an array is created only if there is more than one.
ignoreAttrs	false	Ignore all XML attributes and only create text nodes.
mergeAttrs	false	Merge attributes and child elements as properties of the parent, instead of keying attributes off a child attribute object. This option is ignored if ignoreAttrs is false.
validator	null	You can specify a callable that validates the resulting structure somehow, however you want. See unit tests for an example.
xmlns	false	Give each element a field usually called '$ns' (the first character is the same as attrkey) that contains its local name and namespace URI.
explicitChildren	false	Put child elements to separate property. Doesn't work with mergeAttrs = true. If element has no children then children won't be created. Added in 0.2.5.
childkey	$$	Prefix that is used to access child elements if explicitChildren is set to true. Added in 0.2.5.
preserveChildrenOrder	false	Modifies the behavior of explicitChildren so that the value of the children property becomes an ordered array. When this is true, every node will also get a #name field whose value will correspond to the XML nodeName, so that you may iterate the children array and still be able to determine node names. The named (and potentially unordered) properties are also retained in this configuration at the same level as the ordered children array. Added in 0.4.9.
charsAsChildren	false	Determines whether chars should be considered children if explicitChildren is on. Added in 0.2.5.
includeWhiteChars	false	Determines whether whitespace-only text nodes should be included. Added in 0.4.17.
async	false	Should the callbacks be async? This might be an incompatible change if your code depends on sync execution of callbacks. Future versions of xml2js might change this default, so the recommendation is to not depend on sync execution anyway. Added in 0.2.6.
strict	true	Set sax-js to strict or non-strict parsing mode. Defaults to true which is highly recommended, since parsing HTML which is not well-formed XML might yield just about anything. Added in 0.2.7.
attrNameProcessors(*)	null	Allows the addition of attribute name processing functions. Accepts an Array of functions. Added in 0.4.14.
attrValueProcessors(*)	null	Allows the addition of attribute value processing functions. Accepts an Array of functions. Added in 0.4.1.
tagNameProcessors(*)	null	Allows the addition of tag name processing functions. Accepts an Array of functions. Added in 0.4.1.
valueProcessors(*)	null	Allows the addition of element value processing functions. Accepts an Array of functions. Added in 0.4.6.

Note

(*): These configuration is not supported this time due to Code extension only support array, boolean, integer, null, number, object, string.

📸 Screenshots

📝 Icon Credit

XML, JSON file icon by Smashicons from Flaticon - Flaticon Basic License