XML to JSON

Instant conversion

Paste any XML document and get clean, indented JSON output. Repeated sibling elements are automatically converted to arrays. Runs entirely in your browser — especially useful for inspecting bank-returned pain.002 responses and other ISO 20022 payment messages.

XML input

JSON output

Output will appear here

Conversion rules

XML elements — Each XML element becomes a JSON key. Nested elements become nested objects.
Repeated elements — Sibling elements with the same tag name are automatically converted to a JSON array.
Text content — Element text content becomes the string value of the corresponding JSON key.
Self-closing tags — Self-closing elements (<tag />) become null values in JSON.
XML declarations — The <?xml ?> declaration and processing instructions are stripped from the output.

Common use cases

Inspecting ISO 20022 pain.002 Payment Status Report responses from banks
Converting SEPA payment XML files to JSON for logging and debugging
Parsing legacy XML APIs when migrating to JSON-based systems
Quickly reading the structure of an unfamiliar XML document during development

Dev snippet — XML to JSON (browser)

function xmlToJson(xml) {
  const parser = new DOMParser();
  const doc = parser.parseFromString(xml, "application/xml");
  function nodeToObj(node) {
    if (node.nodeType === Node.TEXT_NODE) return node.nodeValue?.trim() || null;
    const obj = {};
    for (const child of node.childNodes) {
      const val = nodeToObj(child);
      if (val === null) continue;
      const key = child.nodeName;
      if (key in obj) {
        obj[key] = [].concat(obj[key], val);
      } else {
        obj[key] = val;
      }
    }
    return obj;
  }
  return nodeToObj(doc.documentElement);
}

XML to JSON

Conversion rules

Common use cases

Dev snippet — XML to JSON (browser)

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