xml2json

Transforms XML into JSON

Installation

Add this to your Gemfile

gem'xml2json',git: 'git@github.com:monksoftware/xml2json.git'

Configuration

Attributes, text and namespaces key name can be customized, defaults are _attributes, _text and _namespaces

XML2JSON.configdo |c|
c.attributes_key="attr"c.namespaces_key="nsp"c.text_key="txt"end

Usage

XML2JSON.parse(xml_string)# => this outputs a json stringXML2JSON.parse_to_hash(xml_string)# => this outputs a ruby hash

Examples

Input XML

xml='<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <root> <author><name>Andrea</name><email>andrea@wearemonk.com</email></author> <author><name>Giuseppe</name><email>giuseppe@wearemonk.com</email></author> </root>'

Parse to JSON string

XML2JSON.parse(xml)

output is a string

{"root":{"authors":[{"name":"Andrea", "email":"andrea@wearemonk.com"},{"name":"Giuseppe", "email":"giuseppe@wearemonk.com"}]}}

Parse to Ruby Hash

XML2JSON.parse_to_hash(xml)

output is a hash

{"root"=>{"authors"=>[{"name"=>"Andrea","email"=>"andrea@wearemonk.com"},{"name"=>"Giuseppe","email"=>"giuseppe@wearemonk.com"}]}}