xml2json
Transforms XML into JSON
Installation
Add this to your Gemfile
gem 'xml2json', git: 'git@github.com:monksoftware/xml2json.git'Configuration
Attributes, text and namespaces key name can be customized, defaults are _attributes, _text and _namespaces
XML2JSON.config do |c|
c.attributes_key = "attr"
c.namespaces_key = "nsp"
c.text_key = "txt"
endUsage
XML2JSON.parse(xml_string) # => this outputs a json string
XML2JSON.parse_to_hash(xml_string) # => this outputs a ruby hashExamples
Input XML
xml = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<root>
<author><name>Andrea</name><email>andrea@wearemonk.com</email></author>
<author><name>Giuseppe</name><email>giuseppe@wearemonk.com</email></author>
</root>'Parse to JSON string
XML2JSON.parse(xml)
output is a string
{"root":{"authors":[{"name":"Andrea", "email":"andrea@wearemonk.com"},{"name":"Giuseppe", "email":"giuseppe@wearemonk.com"}]}}Parse to Ruby Hash
XML2JSON.parse_to_hash(xml)
output is a hash
{"root" => {"authors" => [{"name" => "Andrea", "email" => "andrea@wearemonk.com"},{"name" => "Giuseppe", "email" => "giuseppe@wearemonk.com"}]}}