XML to JSON Converter

What is XML to JSON conversion?

Modern applications and APIs are built around JSON, but a lot of data, RSS feeds, SOAP responses, configuration files, and exports from older systems, still comes in XML. Converting XML to JSON parses the tag structure, attributes, and text content of your document and rebuilds it as a JSON object your code can work with directly, no manual XML parsing required.

XML parsing by hand is notoriously fiddly, between namespaces, attributes, mixed content, and self-closing tags, there are a lot of edge cases to get wrong. Letting a dedicated tool handle the conversion means you get a reliable JSON structure without writing and debugging that parsing logic yourself.

How to convert XML to JSON online

Paste your XML or upload a .xml file, then click Convert to JSON. Each XML element becomes a JSON key, nested elements become nested objects, and repeated sibling elements become an array. XML attributes are preserved too, stored under an @attributes key alongside the element's own text and children, so you don't lose any information in the conversion.

This means a tag like <item id="42">Widget</item> keeps both the "id" attribute and the "Widget" text content in the resulting JSON, rather than forcing you to choose which part of the data to keep.

Common use cases

• Parsing an RSS or Atom feed into JSON for use in a modern JavaScript application.
• Converting a SOAP API response into JSON to work with in Node.js, Python, or another language.
• Migrating configuration or data files from an XML-based legacy system to a JSON-based one.
• Inspecting a complex XML document more easily by viewing it as structured JSON.
• Building a lightweight JSON API layer on top of an older XML-only backend.

Tips for best results

If your XML uses namespaces, they will typically appear as part of the tag or attribute names in the resulting JSON, which is worth checking if you're matching field names against a strict schema elsewhere. For very large XML documents, the conversion still runs entirely client-side, so performance depends on your own device rather than a shared server.

Why use Convert369's XML to JSON converter

Because parsing happens locally using your browser's own XML parser, nothing about your document, including any embedded credentials or business data, is sent anywhere. The tool is free, handles attributes and nested structures correctly, and returns readable, indented JSON output instantly.

If you're working with a feed or API you'll be pulling from repeatedly, converting one sample response here first is a fast way to understand exactly what JSON shape to expect in code, attributes under @attributes, repeated elements as arrays, before you write a single line of a parser against it.

Something worth checking after conversion: elements that appear only once in your source XML become a single JSON object, while elements that repeat become an array, even if there happens to be only one of them in a particular document. If your code always expects an array for a given field, it's worth normalizing that case explicitly rather than assuming the shape will always match what a single example showed.