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Better XML to JSON parsing for cdata
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// Changes XML to JSON | |
// fixed some bugs from http://davidwalsh.name/convert-xml-json | |
// October 9, 2012 | |
// Brian Hurlow | |
function xmlToJson(xml) { | |
// Create the return object | |
var obj = {}; | |
// console.log(xml.nodeType, xml.nodeName ); | |
if (xml.nodeType == 1) { // element | |
// do attributes | |
if (xml.attributes.length > 0) { | |
obj["@attributes"] = {}; | |
for (var j = 0; j < xml.attributes.length; j++) { | |
var attribute = xml.attributes.item(j); | |
obj["@attributes"][attribute.nodeName] = attribute.nodeValue; | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
else if (xml.nodeType == 4) { // cdata section | |
obj = xml.nodeValue | |
} | |
// do children | |
if (xml.hasChildNodes()) { | |
for(var i = 0; i < xml.childNodes.length; i++) { | |
var item = xml.childNodes.item(i); | |
var nodeName = item.nodeName; | |
if (typeof(obj[nodeName]) == "undefined") { | |
obj[nodeName] = xmlToJson(item); | |
} else { | |
if (typeof(obj[nodeName].length) == "undefined") { | |
var old = obj[nodeName]; | |
obj[nodeName] = []; | |
obj[nodeName].push(old); | |
} | |
if (typeof(obj[nodeName]) === 'object') { | |
obj[nodeName].push(xmlToJson(item)); | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
return obj; | |
}; |
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