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There are also non XSLT converters that use SAX: read XML and serialize out as JSON. There are several node-js packages. Python xmljson. https://pypi.org/project/xmljson/ <https://pypi.org/project/xmljson/> supports several different JSON encoding conventions. And Ibm sure many others. ( Ibve used the Python package, but not for any large projects. ) b Steve. > On Dec 12, 2019, at 5:09 PM, Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, 2019-12-12 at 21:32 +0000, Richard Fozzard > richard.fozzard@xxxxxxxx wrote: >> Hi Folks, >> >> We're looking to do conversion of relatively complex XML (i.e. >> namespaces, attributes, repeating elements, xlinks) into JSON from >> the >> Unix command line to build a web page. We've used the XML to JSON >> feature in the Oxygen Developer tool, and it works well, but that's >> a >> GUI, not a command line tool. > > It's probably using XSLT under the hood, with a stylesheet that's > usable e.g. with Saxon. You do pay the penalty of Java runtime startup, > though. > > Note also that XSLT 3 includes a standard function to produce JSON; see > https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions-31/#json-to-xml-mapping > > So you could just use xml-to-json() in XSLT. You may need Saxon EE for > that, i'm not sure offhand. > > Of course, you could also just send XML to the Web client; what you are > doing by using a complex transformation into JSON is moving the > complexity from one developer to another. You could also generate HTML > on the server, whic might make it easier to meet 508/WCAG requirements > :) > > Liam > > -- > Liam Quin, https://www.delightfulcomputing.com/ > Available for XML/Document/Information Architecture/XSLT/ > XSL/XQuery/Web/Text Processing/A11Y training, work & consulting. > Barefoot Web-slave, antique illustrations: http://www.fromoldbooks.org
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