Convert XML to JSON (and back) using Javascript

Question

How would you convert from XML to JSON and then back to XML?

The following tools work quite well, but aren\'t completely consistent:

• xml2json

Answer 1

These answers helped me a lot to make this function:

function xml2json(xml) {
  try {
    var obj = {};
    if (xml.children.length > 0) {
      for (var i = 0; i < xml.children.length; i++) {
        var item = xml.children.item(i);
        var nodeName = item.nodeName;

        if (typeof (obj[nodeName]) == "undefined") {
          obj[nodeName] = xml2json(item);
        } else {
          if (typeof (obj[nodeName].push) == "undefined") {
            var old = obj[nodeName];

            obj[nodeName] = [];
            obj[nodeName].push(old);
          }
          obj[nodeName].push(xml2json(item));
        }
      }
    } else {
      obj = xml.textContent;
    }
    return obj;
  } catch (e) {
      console.log(e.message);
  }
}

As long as you pass in a jquery dom/xml object: for me it was:

Jquery(this).find('content').eq(0)[0]

where content was the field I was storing my xml in.