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XML to JSON Converter

Convert XML to JSON instantly online. Free XML to JSON converter with attribute support, nested elements, and proper array detection. No signup required.

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XML (Extensible Markup Language) was the dominant data interchange format throughout the 1990s and 2000s, used in SOAP web services, RSS/Atom feeds, Android resource files, Maven POM files, SVG graphics, and Office Open XML documents. JSON replaced it for most new APIs, but vast quantities of legacy systems, enterprise middleware, and configuration formats still produce XML output.

Converting XML to JSON is necessary when a modern JavaScript or Python application needs to consume a legacy SOAP service, process an RSS feed, parse a Maven or Gradle build file, or ingest data exported from enterprise systems like SAP, Salesforce, or Oracle. The structural mismatch between XML's attribute/element duality and JSON's key-value model requires careful mapping decisions.

This tool uses the browser's built-in DOMParser to parse XML into a DOM tree, then recursively converts nodes to JSON — prefixing XML attribute names with @ to distinguish them from child elements, and collapsing repeated sibling tags into arrays. The result is pretty-printed JSON you can copy directly.

Common Use Cases

Consuming legacy SOAP API responses

Older enterprise systems (SAP, Oracle EBS, legacy banking APIs) expose data via SOAP, which wraps payloads in XML envelopes. A Node.js or browser app that needs to display this data can paste the XML response here to understand the JSON structure before writing a production XML-to-JSON parsing step.

Processing RSS and Atom feed data

RSS 2.0 and Atom feeds used by news aggregators and podcast platforms are XML documents. A developer building a custom feed reader or content aggregator can paste a feed here to map the XML item structure to JSON before writing the fetch + parse pipeline that populates their application's data store.

Parsing Android resource and manifest files

Android AndroidManifest.xml and res/values/strings.xml files define app configuration and UI strings. When scripting build automation or extracting app metadata in a CI pipeline, converting these XML files to JSON makes the data trivially queryable with jq or a JavaScript object path expression.

Extracting Maven POM dependency data

Maven pom.xml files list project dependencies in XML. Security scanning tools and custom dependency auditing scripts often need this data as JSON. Converting a POM file here produces a JSON structure that can be filtered with jq to extract all dependency blocks and their version constraints.

How to Use the XML to JSON Converter

  1. Paste your XML in the left panel.
  2. The JSON output appears automatically as you type.
  3. Click "Copy Output" to copy the JSON to your clipboard.
  4. Use "Load Example" to see a sample XML bookstore document.
  5. Click "Download" to save the result as a .json file.

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