trey-jones / xml2json

Python script converts XML to JSON or the other way around

XML2JSON

Python script converts XML to JSON or the other way around

Usage

Make this executable

$ chmod u+x xml2json3

Then invoke it from the command line like this

$ xml2json3 file.xml file.json

Or the other way around

$ xml2json3 -m json file.json file.xml

You can also output to stdout

$ xml2json3 -m json file.json console

Possibly more info in help:

$ xml2json3 -h

Consider putting the script on your path! I have it in ~/bin

More info

Rewritten to a command line utility by Hay Kranen: http://www.haykranen.nl

Fork it on Github: http://github.com/hay/xml2json

Rewritten by Trey Jones for Python3 with a goal of parsing huge (many Gigs) XML files, specifically for using OSM data in Cartagen (https://github.com/jywarren/cartagen/).

@ and # prefixes for attributes and text/tail respectively removed in this version.

We can correctly parse json to xml without them.

Examples

<e/> => "e": null
<e>text</e> => "e": "text"
<e name="value" />  => "e": {"name": "value"}
<e name="value">text</e> => "e": {"name": "value", "text": "text"}
<e><a>text</a><b>text</b></e> => "e": {"a": "text", "b": "text"}
<e><a>text</a><a>text</a></e> => "e": {"a": ["text", "text"]}
<e>text<a>text</a></e> => "e": {"text": "text", "a": "text"}