Convert XML to JSON with Python 3 and defusedxml or plain ElementTree
$ ./xml2json.py -h
usage: xml2json.py [-h] [--unsafe] [infile]
Convert an XML file to JSON.
positional arguments:
infile
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--unsafe do not use defusedxml: only for known-safe XML!
# Normal usage for potentially unsafe XML files: pip install defusedxml ./xml2json.py sample_input.xml > sample_output.json # Without defusedxml ./xml2json.py --unsafe sample_input.xml > sample_output.json # Also supports reading from stdin: ./xml2json.py < sample_input.xml > sample_output.json
Each element gets converted into an object of the form: { tagName : {@text: optional, @children: optional, ...attributes} }
<rootelem foo="bar"> some text <child1> <child2 attr1="baz" attr2="foo"/> <child2 attr2="baz" attr3="foo"/> </child1> </rootelem>
{
"rootelem": {
"foo": "bar",
"@text": "some text",
"@children": [
{
"child1": {
"@children": [
{
"child2": {
"attr1": "baz",
"attr2": "foo"
}
},
{
"child2": {
"attr2": "baz",
"attr3": "foo"
}
}
]
}
}
]
}
}