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XML to JSON using XSLT
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="text" encoding="utf-8"/>
<xsl:template match="/*[node()]">
<xsl:text>{</xsl:text>
<xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="detect" />
<xsl:text>}</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*" mode="detect">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="name(preceding-sibling::*[1]) = name(current()) and name(following-sibling::*[1]) != name(current())">
<xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="obj-content" />
<xsl:text>]</xsl:text>
<xsl:if test="count(following-sibling::*[name() != name(current())]) &gt; 0">, </xsl:if>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="name(preceding-sibling::*[1]) = name(current())">
<xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="obj-content" />
<xsl:if test="name(following-sibling::*) = name(current())">, </xsl:if>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="following-sibling::*[1][name() = name(current())]">
<xsl:text>"</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="name()"/><xsl:text>" : [</xsl:text>
<xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="obj-content" /><xsl:text>, </xsl:text>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="count(./child::*) > 0 or count(@*) > 0">
<xsl:text>"</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="name()"/>" : <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="obj-content" />
<xsl:if test="count(following-sibling::*) &gt; 0">, </xsl:if>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="count(./child::*) = 0">
<xsl:text>"</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="name()"/>" : "<xsl:apply-templates select="."/><xsl:text>"</xsl:text>
<xsl:if test="count(following-sibling::*) &gt; 0">, </xsl:if>
</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*" mode="obj-content">
<xsl:text>{</xsl:text>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*" mode="attr" />
<xsl:if test="count(@*) &gt; 0 and (count(child::*) &gt; 0 or text())">, </xsl:if>
<xsl:apply-templates select="./*" mode="detect" />
<xsl:if test="count(child::*) = 0 and text() and not(@*)">
<xsl:text>"</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="name()"/>" : "<xsl:value-of select="text()"/><xsl:text>"</xsl:text>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="count(child::*) = 0 and text() and @*">
<xsl:text>"text" : "</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="text()"/><xsl:text>"</xsl:text>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:text>}</xsl:text>
<xsl:if test="position() &lt; last()">, </xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="@*" mode="attr">
<xsl:text>"</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="name()"/>" : "<xsl:value-of select="."/><xsl:text>"</xsl:text>
<xsl:if test="position() &lt; last()">,</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="node/@TEXT | text()" name="removeBreaks">
<xsl:param name="pText" select="normalize-space(.)"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="not(contains($pText, '&#xA;'))"><xsl:copy-of select="$pText"/></xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="concat(substring-before($pText, '&#xD;&#xA;'), ' ')"/>
<xsl:call-template name="removeBreaks">
<xsl:with-param name="pText" select="substring-after($pText, '&#xD;&#xA;')"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
@DanilVanDovgal
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Thanks a lot!!! It is very useful.

@bukreevai
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Thanks for your xslt temaplate!
@inancgumus Can you tell me how to remove the namespace from your template?

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