Convert XML into structured JSON using your browser's built-in parser. Nothing is uploaded.
XML is the older, tag-heavy format still common in feeds, legacy APIs, office documents, and enterprise systems, where every value sits inside opening and closing tags. JSON is what modern code prefers, being lighter and mapping straight onto the objects and arrays a program works with. This tool parses your XML using the browser's own built-in parser and turns it into structured JSON, so data trapped in verbose tags becomes something your code can handle naturally.
Paste your XML and the tool reads the tag structure and produces a JSON representation, with elements becoming keys, nested tags becoming nested objects, and repeated tags becoming arrays. Because it relies on the browser's native XML parser, the same engine pages use, it understands well-formed markup accurately rather than guessing with fragile pattern matching. The formatted JSON is ready to copy into a script or an app.
There are real differences between the two formats, and knowing how they are bridged helps you read the output. XML has attributes, the extra values written inside a tag, which JSON has no direct concept of, so they are usually mapped onto keys of their own so nothing is dropped. Text content, mixed nodes, and elements that appear once versus many times all have to be represented in a consistent way, and the result reflects that structure faithfully even when it looks a little different from the original tags.
Choose this over writing an XML parser yourself, which is surprisingly fiddly to get right around attributes and namespaces, and over manually retyping data out of tags. When a system hands you XML but the rest of your stack is JSON, this closes the gap in one step.
It is useful for converting an RSS or product feed into JSON an app can loop over, pulling data out of a legacy SOAP or XML API into a modern shape, inspecting a configuration or export file that arrived as XML, and moving content between systems that speak different formats. Plenty of integration work still starts with a chunk of XML.
The parsing happens entirely in your browser, so your XML is never uploaded, there is no sign-up, and the tool is free. Running locally means the only real limit is your device's memory, which comfortably handles the feeds and export files you are likely to convert.
Since JSON has no notion of attributes, the values written inside a tag are mapped onto their own keys so no information is lost. The exact key naming makes them distinguishable from the element's child content.
Elements that appear more than once under the same parent are collected into a JSON array, which is the natural fit. A tag that appears only once may become a single object rather than an array, so account for that in code that reads the result.
The browser's parser requires well-formed XML, so an unclosed tag, a mismatched name, or an illegal character will stop it. Fixing the markup so every tag opens and closes correctly is usually the answer.
Namespace prefixes are part of the tag names the parser sees, so they generally carry into the JSON keys. If you do not need them, you may want to simplify the keys in your code afterward.
A standard XML declaration is understood by the parser and does not become data, and comments are ignored rather than converted. Only the actual elements and their content end up in the JSON.
This tool goes one direction, from XML to JSON. Turning JSON back into XML is a separate conversion, since the mapping is not perfectly symmetric given how differently the two formats treat attributes and structure.
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