JXON - JavaScript XML Object Notation

This JXON library provides the core functionality to create JSON objects from XML, preserving as much of the original XML information as possible.

Why JXON?

Why even need a JSON from XML converter? While front-end development utilizes JavaScript and JSON for their language and data model, most of the web still uses XML as a means of communicating between systems. JXON helps bridge the gap between getting XML data and consuming it in JavaScript based systems.

Features

This current version of the JXON parser is very limited, only converting XML to JSON format. The JXON module contains 2 classes:

• JXONNode - A base object that all JSON object inherit from.
• Parser - The XML parser that converts XML to JXON.

How to use

Using this JXON library is fairly straight forward.

You start by instantiating an instance of the JXON Parser. At that point, you have 3 parsing options:

• parser.parseNode - Converts an object implementing IXMLDOMElement interface into a JXONNode object.
• parser.parseXML - Converts any XML string into a JXONNode object, including all children nodes.
• parser.parseXMLFile - Loads and converts any XML file into a JXONNode object. parser.parseXMLFile can be either synchronous or asynchronous.

Code Example

var parser = new JXON.Parser();
var jxon = null;

jxon = parser.parseXML(someXMLText);
// or
jxon = parser.parseNode(someXMLElement);
// or
jxon = parser.parseXMLFile("http://some.xml.file")
// or
parser.parseXMLFile("http://some.xml.file", function(jxon)
{
    //Do somthing
});

Dependencies

JXON currently has no external dependencies

Browser Support

JXON currently supports IE8+ as well as all modern browsers. Although it may also work in older versions of IE, it is not support and will never be supported.