XML to JSON Converter - Free & In-Browser
Transform legacy SOAP, RSS feeds, and XML files into clean modern JSON structures.
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How to Use the XML to JSON Converter
1. Paste or Upload XML
Paste your raw XML markup, SOAP envelope, RSS feed, or drop an .xml file into the editor.
2. Configure Attribute Prefixing
Choose whether attributes are prefixed with "@_", "$", or parsed without prefixes, and set indentation.
3. Copy or Download JSON
Copy the formatted JSON output, download as .json, or click ⇄ Swap to convert JSON back into valid XML.
Real Example: XML to JSON Input & Transformed Output
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<bookstore status="available">
<book category="fiction" isbn="978-0061120084">
<title lang="en">To Kill a Mockingbird</title>
<author>Harper Lee</author>
<price currency="USD">18.99</price>
</book>
<book category="classic" isbn="978-0452284234">
<title lang="en">1984</title>
<author>George Orwell</author>
<price currency="USD">14.50</price>
</book>
</bookstore>{
"bookstore": {
"@_status": "available",
"book": [
{
"@_category": "fiction",
"@_isbn": "978-0061120084",
"title": {
"#text": "To Kill a Mockingbird",
"@_lang": "en"
},
"author": "Harper Lee",
"price": {
"#text": 18.99,
"@_currency": "USD"
}
},
{
"@_category": "classic",
"@_isbn": "978-0452284234",
"title": {
"#text": "1984",
"@_lang": "en"
},
"author": "George Orwell",
"price": {
"#text": 14.5,
"@_currency": "USD"
}
}
]
}
}Primary Use Cases for XML to JSON
Legacy SOAP & WSDL Service Modernization
Extract nested data payloads from enterprise SOAP responses and WSDL endpoints into clean JSON for modern frontend consumption.
RSS & Atom Newsfeed Aggregation
Transform syndicated XML podcast directories, media feeds, and news streams into structured JSON arrays for mobile and web apps.
Enterprise Billing & Invoice Parsing
Convert UBL, cXML, and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) XML documents into JSON objects for automated data warehouse extraction.
About the XML to JSON Converter
The Codeflips XML to JSON converter is a free online tool built for software engineers, systems integrators, and API developers who need to convert XML to JSON online free. While modern web architectures and REST/GraphQL APIs operate almost exclusively on JSON, enterprise backends, financial clearinghouses, payment gateways, and RSS feeds still emit verbose XML. Our tool provides instantaneous, zero-latency conversion between the two standards.
Converting legacy XML payloads often involves sensitive business data—such as financial invoices, healthcare records, or confidential partner communications. Traditional online converters transmit your XML payloads to remote servers where logs can be compromised. Codeflips runs 100% in your browser, nothing is uploaded. Your source data stays isolated in local memory.
Deep Dive: Engineering & Data Handling
XML represents data with both elements and tag attributes, which do not have a 1-to-1 equivalent in JSON. Codeflips resolves this intelligently: attributes are preserved using a configurable prefix like "@_" or "$", text content in mixed nodes is indexed as "#text", and identical sibling tags are unified into arrays. From here, you can easily export tabular records using our JSON to CSV converter or integrate cloud configuration files using YAML to JSON.
Technical Architecture & Execution Model
Powered by fast-xml-parser 5.x, this converter processes large XML documents in milliseconds. It complies with W3C XML 1.0 recommendations, automatically decodes standard entities (&, <, >, ", '), respects namespace declarations, and supports reversible JSON to XML generation.