XML to JSON Converter — Free, No Upload

When you convert XML to JSON

XML and JSON solve the same problem — structured data exchange — with different syntax. Modern web APIs and frontend frameworks overwhelmingly prefer JSON; legacy systems, SOAP services and Office documents still use XML. Converting XML to JSON is the bridge that lets data flow between them.

Common scenarios: ingesting a SOAP API response into a Node.js script; loading an RSS feed into a React app; turning a sitemap.xml into JSON for analytics; converting Maven dependency listings for a build dashboard; consuming Spring Boot config XML in a JavaScript tool.

Conversion rules

XML and JSON aren't structurally identical, so there's no single "correct" conversion — this tool uses these conventions (similar to most XML-to-JSON tools):

• Element name becomes the JSON property name.
• Text content becomes the property value (a string).
• Repeated elements with the same name become a JSON array.
• Attributes become properties prefixed with @ — e.g. <a href="x"> becomes {"@href": "x"}.
• Mixed content (an element with both text and child elements) stores text as a #text property.
• Comments are dropped.
• CDATA is treated as ordinary text.

Tips

• Round-tripping XML through JSON and back rarely produces byte-identical output — XML has features (namespaces, processing instructions, mixed content) that don't fit JSON cleanly.
• For SOAP API conversion, you usually want the Body content only — strip the envelope first.
• Numbers and booleans stay as strings. JSON consumers typically apply type coercion in their parsing layer.

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