About the XML to JSON Converter
The XML to JSON converter parses XML documents and outputs the equivalent structured JSON, making it easy to work with legacy XML feeds, SOAP responses, or configuration files inside modern JavaScript applications that expect JSON. Rather than writing a custom parser for every project, you can convert once and immediately use the result in your code.
This tool is aimed at developers consuming third-party XML APIs or RSS/Atom feeds, integration engineers migrating legacy systems toward JSON-based microservices, and anyone who needs to quickly inspect the structure of an XML document in a more familiar, readable format. The parsing uses your browser's native, standards-compliant XML parser, so malformed XML is caught immediately.
To use it, paste your XML markup into the input box or upload a .xml file, then click "Convert to JSON." Elements become JSON object keys, text content becomes string values, attributes are captured with an "@" prefix by default, and repeated sibling elements are automatically grouped into JSON arrays. You can copy the resulting JSON or download it as a .json file.
For example, an XML document like <user id="1"><name>Ana</name><role>admin</role><role>editor</role></user> converts into a JSON object where "@id":"1" captures the attribute, "name":"Ana" captures the text element, and "role":["admin","editor"] automatically becomes an array because the tag appeared more than once.
A common mistake is pasting XML with an invalid or missing closing tag — the browser's XML parser will reject this immediately with a parsing error, so always ensure your XML is well-formed before conversion. Namespaced XML (like <ns:tag>) is preserved with the namespace prefix included in the resulting JSON key, which is usually what downstream code expects, though you may want to strip prefixes manually if your consuming code doesn't use namespaces.
Tip: when working with SOAP or heavily namespaced enterprise XML, first identify which elements repeat, since that determines whether a field appears as a single JSON value or an array — a subtlety that's easy to miss when writing a converter by hand but is handled automatically here.