xml2json

Converts xml to json and vice-versa, using node-expat.

Simple XML2JSON Parser


It does not parse the following elements:

• CDATA sections (*)
• Processing instructions
• XML declarations
• Entity declarations
• Comments

This module uses node-expat which will require extra steps if you want to get it installed on Windows. Please refer to its documentation at http://node-xmpp.github.io/doc/nodeexpat.html#toc_6

Installation

$ npm install xml2json

Usage

var parser = require('xml2json');
 
var xml = "<foo>bar</foo>";
var json = parser.toJson(xml); //returns a string containing the JSON structure by default 
console.log(json);

API

parser.toJson(xml, options);

parser.toXml(json);

Options object for toJson

Default values:

var options = {
    object: false,
    reversible: false,
    coerce: true,
    sanitize: true,
    trim: true,
    arrayNotation: false
};

• object: Returns a Javascript object instead of a JSON string
• reversible: Makes the JSON reversible to XML (*)
• coerce: Makes type coercion. i.e.: numbers and booleans present in attributes and element values are converted from string to its correspondent data types.
• trim: Removes leading and trailing whitespaces as well as line terminators in element values.
• arrayNotation: XML child nodes are always treated as arrays
• sanitize: Sanitizes the following characters present in element values:

var chars =  {
    '<': '&lt;',
    '>': '&gt;',
    '(': '&#40;',
    ')': '&#41;',
    '#': '&#35;',
    '&': '&amp;',
    '"': '&quot;',
    "'": '&apos;'
};

Options object for toXml

Default values:

var options = {
    sanitize: false
};

sanitize: false is the default option to behave like previous versions

(*) xml2json tranforms CDATA content to JSON, but it doesn't generate a reversible structure.

License

(The MIT License)

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