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Function to convert XML to JSON
// Changes XML to JSON
// Modified version from here: http://davidwalsh.name/convert-xml-json
xmlToJson(xml) {
// Create the return object
let obj = {};
if (xml.nodeType === 1) { // element
// do attributes
if (xml.attributes.length > 0) {
obj['@attributes'] = {};
for (let j = 0; j < xml.attributes.length; j += 1) {
const attribute = xml.attributes.item(j);
obj['@attributes'][attribute.nodeName] = attribute.nodeValue;
}
}
} else if (xml.nodeType === 3) { // text
obj = xml.nodeValue;
}
// do children
// If just one text node inside
if (xml.hasChildNodes() && xml.childNodes.length === 1 && xml.childNodes[0].nodeType === 3) {
obj = xml.childNodes[0].nodeValue;
} else if (xml.hasChildNodes()) {
for (let i = 0; i < xml.childNodes.length; i += 1) {
const item = xml.childNodes.item(i);
const nodeName = item.nodeName;
if (typeof (obj[nodeName]) === 'undefined') {
obj[nodeName] = xmlToJson(item);
} else {
if (typeof (obj[nodeName].push) === 'undefined') {
const old = obj[nodeName];
obj[nodeName] = [];
obj[nodeName].push(old);
}
obj[nodeName].push(xmlToJson(item));
}
}
}
return obj;
},
@obisi7
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obisi7 commented Apr 25, 2019

Great News! I finally solved my own problem. Everything is working now. I had to include another child node to be retrieved (CDATA-Section) of type level 4 and bingo, all data needed came in and I can now extract what I need in the format I need it. Thanks all.

@xuxucode
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Another version:

// xml is the result of `DOMParser.parseFromString()`
function xml2json(xml) {
  if (xml.children.length === 0)
    return xml.textContent.trim()

  const obj = {}

  for (let child of xml.children) {
    const name = child.nodeName
    if (obj[name] === undefined)
      obj[name] = xml2json(child)
    else {
      if (!Array.isArray(obj[name]))
        obj[name] = [obj[name]]
      obj[name].push(xml2json(child))
    }
  }

  return obj
}

@victor123
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Great.Thanks much

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