Converts javascript objects / JSON to an xml string
Modified VERY SLIGHTLY from http://raathigesh.com/Converting-Json-Object-To-XML-String-In-JavaScript/
Raathigeshan's version works perfectly, but I had a requirement to convert to an xml format that could not be achieved with his conversion, because it required array-like objects where multiple properties had the same name. Here is an example:
{
"body":{
"array":{
"entry":{
"data":"string_1"
},
"entry":{
"data":"string_2"
},
"entry":{
"data":"string_3"
}
}
}
}This does not work because an object cannot have multiple properties with the same name. So I tried this:
{
"body":{
"array":[
{
"data":"string_1"
},
{
"data":"string_2"
},
{
"data":"string_3"
}
]
}
}Ussing an actual array would not work either because I needed the xml to include the entry property name tag surrounding the data tags. So I built the json structure like this (adding a number flanked by two underscores to each entry):
{
"body":{
"array":{
"entry_1_":{
"data":"string_1"
},
"entry_2_":{
"data":"string_2"
},
"entry_3_":{
"data":"string_3"
}
}
}
}With the regex replace method I was able to remove all the numbers (_1_,_2_,_3_) from the xml string after the loop had been complete. So my output looks like this:
<body>
<array>
<entry>
<data>"string_1"</data>
</entry>
<entry>
<data>"string_2"</data>
</entry>
<entry>
<data>"string_3"</data>
</entry>
</array>
</body>This doesn't seem to be the most elegant solution because you wouldn't typically have json formatted in the way required for this conversion to work - but for my use case it served its purpose.