Python script converts XML to JSON or the other way around
Make this executable
$ chmod +x xml2json
Then invoke it from the command line like this
$ xml2json -t xml2json -o file.json file.xml
Or the other way around
$ xml2json -t json2xml -o file.xml file.json
Without the -o parameter xml2json writes to stdout
$ xml2json -t json2xml file.json
Additional the options: Strip text (#text and #tail) in the json
$ xml2json -t xml2json -o file.json file.xml --strip_text
Strip namespace in the json
$ xml2json -t xml2json -o file.json file.xml --strip_namespace
In code
from xml2json import json2xml
d = {'r': {'@p': 'p1', '#text': 't1', 'c': 't2'}}
print(json2xml(d))
> b'<r p="p1">t1<c>t2</c></r>'
Either clone this repo or use pip like this:
pip install https://github.com/hay/xml2json/zipball/master
xml2json is released under the terms of the MIT license.
This script was originally written by R.White, Rewritten to a command line utility by Hay Kranen with contributions from George Hamilton (gmh04) and Dan Brown (jdanbrown)
xml2json relies on ElementTree for the XML parsing. This is based on pesterfish.py but uses a different XML->JSON mapping. The XML -> JSON mapping is described here
XML JSON
<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" }
This is very similar to the mapping used for Yahoo Web Services
This is a mess in that it is so unpredictable -- it requires lots of testing (e.g. to see if values are lists or strings or dictionaries). For use in Python this could be vastly cleaner. Think about whether the internal form can be more self-consistent while maintaining good external characteristics for the JSON.
Look at the Yahoo version closely to see how it works. Maybe can adopt that completely if it makes more sense...
R. White, 2006 November 6