Function to convert XML to JSON

xmlToJson.js

/**
 * Changes XML to JSON
 * Modified version from here: http://davidwalsh.name/convert-xml-json
 * @param {string} xml XML DOM tree
 */
function xmlToJson(xml) {
  // Create the return object
  var obj = {};

  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 == 3) {
    // text
    obj = xml.nodeValue;
  }

  // do children
  // If all text nodes inside, get concatenated text from them.
  var textNodes = [].slice.call(xml.childNodes).filter(function(node) {
    return node.nodeType === 3;
  });
  if (xml.hasChildNodes() && xml.childNodes.length === textNodes.length) {
    obj = [].slice.call(xml.childNodes).reduce(function(text, node) {
      return text + node.nodeValue;
    }, "");
  } else 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].push == "undefined") {
          var old = obj[nodeName];
          obj[nodeName] = [];
          obj[nodeName].push(old);
        }
        obj[nodeName].push(xmlToJson(item));
      }
    }
  }
  return obj;
}

/*
Usage:

1. If you have an XML file URL:

const response = await fetch('file_url');
const xmlString = await response.text();
var XmlNode = new DOMParser().parseFromString(xmlString, 'text/xml');
xmlToJson(XmlNode);

2. If you have an XML as string:

var XmlNode = new DOMParser().parseFromString(yourXmlString, 'text/xml');
xmlToJson(XmlNode);

3. If you have the XML as a DOM Node:

xmlToJson(YourXmlNode);
*/

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I am using the same code But when I am using the same code inside try and catch it is failing. The code was working fine but after updating node to 11.10.0, npm 6.8.0 and appium 1.11

Thanks for the code. I tried using the final version within a fetch call as shown below but I am getting this error: "Fetch TypeError: (0, _xmlTpJson.default) is undefined. I can't find any insight to the error or how to fix it. Please help and thanks.

` getNews() {
const link = "https://feeds.feedburner.com/morganstateu";

return fetch(link)
  .then(response => response.text())
  .then(response => {
    let resJson = xmlToJson(response);
    this.setState({
      data: resJson.rss.channel[0].item,
      isLoading: false,
      refreshing: false,
      error: response.error || null
    });
  })
  .catch(error => {
    this.setState({ error, isLoading: false });
    // Alert.alert("Error", "Sorry, something went wrong. Please try again");
    console.log('fetch', error)
  });

}`

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Updated with examples of how to use the function.

@obisi7
You need to convert the response string into DOM before passing to xmlToJson:

let node = new DOMParser().parseFromString(response, 'text/xml')
let resJson = xmlToJson(node);

how if contains cdata in a tags?

Thanks.

Has anyone gotten it to work with creating an array?

thank you!

I am facing an error " cannot convert undefined or null to object " in line 23