Re: Asking for recommendations of xml 2 json open source projects

On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 8:05 AM Peter Flynn <[email protected]> wrote:


> How does it deal with XML-->JSON for deep mixed content? I have TEI
> documents with analytic markup, on which the publisher's rendering and
> the user's linguistic or semantic analysis depends, nested up to 10
> levels deep. I am under pressure from some quarters to "make the markup
> simpler" by using JSON.


Sure, it's straightforward.  Each XML element is a JSON array whose first
element is the element name as a JSON string, whose second element is the
attribute mapping as a JSON object, and whose remaining elements are the
content as JSON strings or arrays.  The attribute mapping can be omitted if
it is empty.

Thus:

<foo/> => ["foo"]

<foo bar="baz" zam="quux"/> => ["foo", {"bar":"baz", "zam":"quux"}]

<foo>32 <dog/></foo> => ["foo", "32 ", "["dog"]]

<foo bar="baz"><dog zam="quux"/> => ["foo", {"bar":"baz"}, ["dog"",
{"zam":"quux"}]]