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Convert simple XML into structured JSON with optional attribute support and text trimming.
XML was the dominant data interchange format for two decades and still powers SOAP APIs, RSS feeds, SVG files, Android resources, Maven POM files, and countless legacy enterprise systems. When you need to consume XML in a JavaScript or Python application, or migrate data out of an old system, you need it as JSON. Parsing XML manually means dealing with attributes vs text nodes, self-closing tags, mixed content, namespaces, and CDATA sections that wrap escaped HTML — none of which map cleanly to JSON without a deliberate strategy. This tool converts XML to JSON using a consistent attribute-aware strategy: element attributes become @attr keys, text content becomes a #text key, and repeated sibling elements become arrays. The result is a predictable, queryable JSON structure you can immediately work with using standard JavaScript or jq.
XML attributes are preserved as @attr prefixed keys rather than being silently dropped. This gives you access to the full information in the original XML, including IDs, types, and namespace declarations that live in attributes.
Sibling elements with the same tag name are automatically grouped into a JSON array. This prevents the common mistake of losing data when multiple child elements share a tag and only the last one survives the conversion.
CDATA sections that contain escaped HTML or other character data are extracted and placed as string values in the JSON. The CDATA wrapper is removed cleanly without exposing its syntax in the output.
XML namespace prefixes and xmlns declarations are preserved in the JSON key names, letting you distinguish soap:Body from wsdl:message without collisions in complex enterprise XML formats.
When a tag contains only text and no attributes or children, it can be emitted as a plain string value rather than a {#text: '...'} wrapper object, producing cleaner JSON for simple XML documents.
Conversion runs entirely in your browser. SOAP request logs, Android resources, and legacy data exports never leave your machine or touch a server.
Input: <user id="1"><name>Alice</name><role>admin</role></user>
Output: { "user": { "@id": "1", "name": "Alice", "role": "admin" } }
Input: <items><item>A</item><item>B</item><item>C</item></items>
Output: { "items": { "item": ["A", "B", "C"] } }
Input: <message><body><![CDATA[<b>Hello</b>]]></body></message>
Output: { "message": { "body": "<b>Hello</b>" } }