The XML format has a specific structure which allows to store a different type of data in XML files.
In the modern software development, files in JSON format became more popular because of the JSON format simplicity. JSON files can also store different type of data in a structured way. But the advantage of JSON format is that JSON files are easier to process by the machine, which saves the server resources.
Choosing JSON format for storing data can significantly save the computing power resources as well as the amount of required storage space. This makes JSON format a very optimal solution for a many software applications.
As a first step, we read an XML source file and validate it. During the validation process, we check the data structure of the XML for errors. If there are a lot of errors in the XML file structure - we couldn't process such a file.
On the parsing step we import XML data file, read and understand the data structure and extract the data from the XML.
When the data from the source XML file is extracted, the next step is to transform the data from XML-based representation into the objects-representation such as the JSON format.
XML to JSON converter uses the following rules to transform the data:
- Every XML tag represents the separate JSON object
- Every XML attribute represents the separate JSON object key-value
- Repeatable XML tags are forming a JSON array of objects
Once the data is transformed into JSON representation and combined based on the XML to JSON converter rules, it is saved into the JSON file.
XML is an abbreviation from "Extensible Markup Language".
XML is both machine-readable and human-readable format and can be edited in any text editor.
XML Tags should have correctly defined names, starting with a character, and not a number.
For example,
valid: <Products>
not valid: <1stWeekData>
There are defined start-tag (or opening tag): <Products>
and end-tag (or closing tag): </Products>.
XML document can have only one root element. Root element is a start-tag and end-tag, and the rest of the XML content should be placed inside those tags.
For example,
<Products>
..xml content here
</Products>
Special characters inside XML like <, >, &, ' and " should be escaped as follows:
- < represents "<"
- > represents ">"
- & represents "&"
- ' represents "'"
- " represents '"'
XML encoding is defined in the XML file as the first line:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
We support all encoding formats. The most popular encoding is "UTF-8".
JSON means JavaScript Object Notation.
JSON file is a text file and it can be edited in any Text Editor.
JSON is a lightweight format for interchanging or storing the data.
File in JSON format has extension: .json.
Many websites (including Conversion Tools) uses JSON format as a standard for transferring data via API.
Use our
XML to JSON Converter to convert any XML file to JSON format.
Steps to use XML to JSON Converter:
- Upload XML file
- Click 'Run Conversion' button
- when the file is converted - download JSON file
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Steps to use XML to JSON Converter:
- Upload XML file
- If necessary, choose JSON file space indentation format for your output file
- Click 'Run Conversion' button
- when the file is converted - download JSON file