changelogs-to-json.py

from xml.dom import minidom
import json
xmldoc = minidom.parse('changelogs.xml')

items = []
itemsxml = xmldoc.getElementsByTagName('string-array')
versions = itemsxml[0].getElementsByTagName('item')
dates = itemsxml[1].getElementsByTagName('item')
descs = itemsxml[2].getElementsByTagName('item')

def GetValue(thing):
    return thing.firstChild.nodeValue

for i in range(0,len(versions)):
    item = {}
    item['version_name'] = GetValue(versions[i])
    item['release_date'] = GetValue(dates[i])
    changes = GetValue(descs[i]).split('\\n')
    for j in range(0,len(changes)):
        if j == 0:
            changes[j] = changes[j][4:]
        elif j == len(changes)-1:
            changes[j] = changes[j][3:-1]
        else:
            changes[j] = changes[j][3:]
    item['changes'] = changes
    items.append(item)

print json.dumps(items[::-1], indent=4)