XML

Use the XML node to convert data from and to XML.

Note

Binary files If your XML is within a binary file, use the Extract from File node to convert it to text first.

Node parameters

  • Mode: The format the data should be converted from and to.

    • JSON to XML: Converts data from JSON to XML.

    • XML to JSON: Converts data from XML to JSON.

  • Property Name: Enter the name of the property which contains the data to convert.

Node options

These options are available regardless of the Mode you select:

  • Attribute Key: Enter the prefix used to access the attributes. Default is $.

  • Character Key: Enter the prefix used to access the character content. Default is _.

All other options depend on the selected Mode.

JSON to XML options

These options only appear if you select JSON to XML as the Mode:

  • Allow Surrogate Chars: Set whether to allow using characters from the Unicode surrogate blocks (turned on) or not (turned off).

  • Cdata: Set whether to wrap text nodes in <![CDATA[ ... ]]> instead of escaping when it’s required (turned on) or not (turned off).

    • Turning this option on doesn’t add <![CDATA[ ... ]]> if it’s not required.

  • Headless: Set whether to omit the XML header (turned on) or include it (turned off).

  • Root Name: Enter the root element name to use.

XML to JSON options

These options only appear if you select XML to JSON as the Mode:

  • Explicit Array: Set whether to put child nodes in an array (turned on) or create an array only if there’s more than one child node (turned off).

  • Explicit Root: Set whether to get the root node in the resulting object (turned on) or not (turned off).

  • Ignore Attributes: Set whether to ignore all XML attributes and only create text nodes (turned on) or not (turned off).

  • Merge Attributes: Set whether to merge attributes and child elements as properties of the parent (turned on) or key attributes off a child attribute object (turned off). This option is ignored if Ignore Attribute is turned on.

  • Normalize: Set whether to trim whitespaces inside the text nodes (turned on) or not to trim them (turned off).

  • Normalize Tags: Set whether to normalize all tag names to lowercase (turned on) or keep tag names as-is (turned off).

  • Trim: Set whether to trim the whitespace at the beginning and end of text nodes (turned on) or to leave the whitespace as-is (turned off).

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