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Convert XML to JSON. This is a version that provides a JSON object without the attributes and places textNodes as values rather than an object with the textNode in it.
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/** | |
* Originally from http://davidwalsh.name/convert-xml-json | |
* This is a version that provides a JSON object without the attributes and places textNodes as values | |
* rather than an object with the textNode in it. | |
* 27/11/2012 | |
* Ben Chidgey | |
* | |
* @param xml | |
* @return {*} | |
*/ | |
function xmlToJson(xml) { | |
// Create the return object | |
var obj = {}; | |
// text node | |
if (4 === xml.nodeType) { | |
obj = xml.nodeValue; | |
} | |
if (xml.hasChildNodes()) { | |
for (var i = 0; i < xml.childNodes.length; i++) { | |
var TEXT_NODE_TYPE_NAME = '#text', | |
item = xml.childNodes.item(i), | |
nodeName = item.nodeName, | |
content; | |
if (TEXT_NODE_TYPE_NAME === nodeName) { | |
//single textNode or next sibling has a different name | |
if ((null === xml.nextSibling) || (xml.localName !== xml.nextSibling.localName)) { | |
content = xml.textContent; | |
//we have a sibling with the same name | |
} else if (xml.localName === xml.nextSibling.localName) { | |
//if it is the first node of its parents childNodes, send it back as an array | |
content = (xml.parentElement.childNodes[0] === xml) ? [xml.textContent] : xml.textContent; | |
} | |
return content; | |
} else { | |
if ('undefined' === typeof(obj[nodeName])) { | |
obj[nodeName] = xmlToJson(item); | |
} else { | |
if ('undefined' === typeof(obj[nodeName].length)) { | |
var old = obj[nodeName]; | |
obj[nodeName] = []; | |
obj[nodeName].push(old); | |
} | |
obj[nodeName].push(xmlToJson(item)); | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
return obj; | |
} |
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