Using org.json.XML to convert XML to JSON inside a ColdBox event handler. The org.json java library will need to be downloaded to the ColdBox /lib folder or added to the server.

Diversions.cfc

component extends="coldbox.system.EventHandler" {

	property name = "SpiderService" inject;

	function xmlToJson (event, rc, prc) {
		var u = event.getValue("u", "");
    
		prc['data'] = {};
		if(u.len()){
			var obj = createObject("java", "org.json.XML");
			cfhttp(url = rc.u, method = "get");
			if(isXML(cfhttp.fileContent)) prc.data.append(deserializeJSON(obj.toJSONObject(cfhttp.fileContent, true)));
		}
	}

}