XML to JSON Converter Online - Free & Private

Paste XML or drop a file and get JSON you can work with in JavaScript, Python or any API. Attributes are kept with an @ prefix, repeated elements become arrays, and numbers and booleans can be converted to real values.

How to convert XML to JSON

1. Paste XML into the left editor, or open or drop an .xml file, an RSS or Atom feed, a sitemap or a SOAP response.
2. JSON appears on the right. If the XML is not well formed, for example a tag is never closed, the error and its line number are shown.
3. Explore the result in tree view, copy it, or download it as a .json file.

How XML maps to JSON

• The root element becomes the single top-level key.
• Child elements become keys. An element that appears more than once becomes an array.
• Attributes become keys with a prefix, @ by default, so <book id="bk101"> gives {"@id": "bk101"}.
• An element with only text becomes a plain value. An element with attributes or children as well as text keeps the text under #text.
• CDATA sections are read as text, and comments and processing instructions are dropped.
• Namespace prefixes are kept in the key names, for example soap:Body.

Options

• Keep attributes: turn off to ignore attributes and keep only element content.
• Attribute prefix: change @ to _, $ or nothing at all, to match what your code expects.
• Detect numbers: turn 44.95, true and false into numbers and booleans. Turn it off to keep every value as a string.
• Always arrays: wrap every child element in an array, even when it appears once. This gives the same shape for a feed with one item as for a feed with fifty, which makes the JSON much easier to loop over in code.
• Indent: spaces per level in the JSON.

Example

<catalog>
  <book id="bk101"><price>44.95</price></book>
  <book id="bk102"><price>5.95</price></book>
</catalog>

becomes {"catalog":{"book":[{"@id":"bk101","price":44.95},{"@id":"bk102","price":5.95}]}}.

To go back, use the JSON to XML converter.

Private by design

The XML is parsed by your browser's own XML parser. Nothing is uploaded, and external entities are never fetched.