The positional information of the XML tag as part of a text is not maintained in the converted JSON.

[agarwal-nitesh]

Example:

<text>The author of the book <author index="1" year="2022">[XYZ</author>], is a well-known journalist.</text>

output is something like:

"text": [
  "author": {
     "@index": "1",
     "@year": "2022",
     "#text": "[XYZ"
   }
  "#text": "The author of the book ], is a well-known journalist. "
  ]

The position of the author tag in the above example cannot be deterministically derived in the converted JSON

[javadev]

It may be converted to this json

{
  "text": {
    "#text": "The author of the book ",
    "author": {
      "-index": "1",
      "-year": "2022",
      "#text": "[XYZ"
    },
    "#text1": "], is a well-known journalist."
  },
  "#omit-xml-declaration": "yes"
}

[tingletech]

How do you convert it to that JSON

It may be converted to this json

{
  "text": {
    "#text": "The author of the book ",
    "author": {
      "-index": "1",
      "-year": "2022",
      "#text": "[XYZ"
    },
    "#text1": "], is a well-known journalist."
  },
  "#omit-xml-declaration": "yes"
}

How does one convert it to that JSON? I'm getting

>>> json.dumps(xmltodict.parse("""<text>The author of the book <author index="1" year="2022">[XYZ</author>], is a well-known journalist.</text>"""))
'{"text": {"author": {"@index": "1", "@year": "2022", "#text": "[XYZ"}, "#text": "The author of the book ], is a well-known journalist."}}'
>>> print(xmltodict.__version__)
0.13.0

[javadev]

How do you convert it to that JSON

It may be converted to this json

{
  "text": {
    "#text": "The author of the book ",
    "author": {
      "-index": "1",
      "-year": "2022",
      "#text": "[XYZ"
    },
    "#text1": "], is a well-known journalist."
  },
  "#omit-xml-declaration": "yes"
}

How does one convert it to that JSON? I'm getting

>>> json.dumps(xmltodict.parse("""<text>The author of the book <author index="1" year="2022">[XYZ</author>], is a well-known journalist.</text>"""))
'{"text": {"author": {"@index": "1", "@year": "2022", "#text": "[XYZ"}, "#text": "The author of the book ], is a well-known journalist."}}'
>>> print(xmltodict.__version__)
0.13.0

It was a suggestion how it may be converted.

[tingletech]

How does one make xmltodict convert the XML to that JSON. Or, what tool to you suggest to use to make your suggested JSON from XML?

[javadev]

How does one make xmltodict convert the XML to that JSON. Or, what tool to you suggest to use to make your suggested JSON from XML?

I used online service https://xmltojson.github.io