XML to JSON Converter

Attributes have no JSON equivalent. XML lets an element carry both attributes and child elements, so <price currency="INR">1299</price> holds two separate pieces of information. JSON has only keys and values. The standard solution is a prefix — the attribute becomes @currency and the text becomes #text— which is what this tool does, with the prefix configurable to match whatever your codebase already uses.

Repeated elements are ambiguous. If a product has three tags, they naturally become a JSON array. If it has one tag, should that be an array with one item, or just a value? XML gives no way to tell, because there is no schema in the document itself saying "this element repeats". Most converters guess based on what they see, which means the same code path produces an object for one product and an array for another — a genuinely common source of bugs. The Always use arrays option removes the ambiguity: every child becomes an array, so your consuming code has one predictable shape to handle.

On parsing itself: this uses the browser's own XML parser rather than regular expressions. That matters because XML nests arbitrarily, attributes can contain angle brackets when escaped, and CDATA sections deliberately hold text that looks like markup. A regex approach handles the simple example in the documentation and breaks on the first real file.