Convert XML to JSON

This script converts the current data file inside Workflow from the XML format to JSON, which can be used in any JavaScript code. For instance it can be passed to Designer and it can be loaded up directly as an object in a script there. Or it can be returned to a web page front-end and processed there.

Converting arbitrary formats is never guaranteed, and while this script tries to make it work for any format, we cannot guarantee it will work for every file out there!

This script can be added to a Workflow process with the Run Script action. Don’t forget to change the language to “JavaScript”!

xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLHTTP');
xmlhttp.open('GET',Watch.GetJobFilename(), false);
xmlhttp.send();

var xml = xmlhttp.responseText;

(function (root, factory) {
     if (typeof define === "function" && define.amd) {
         define([], factory);
     } else if (typeof exports === "object") {
         module.exports = factory();
     } else {
         root.X2JS = factory();
     }
 }(this, function () {
        return function (config) {
                'use strict';

                var VERSION = "1.2.0";

                config = config || {};
                initConfigDefaults();
                initRequiredPolyfills();

                function initConfigDefaults() {
                        if(config.escapeMode === undefined) {
                                config.escapeMode = true;
                        }

                        config.attributePrefix = config.attributePrefix || "_";
                        config.arrayAccessForm = config.arrayAccessForm || "none";
                        config.emptyNodeForm = config.emptyNodeForm || "text";

                        if(config.enableToStringFunc === undefined) {
                                config.enableToStringFunc = true;
                        }
                        config.arrayAccessFormPaths = config.arrayAccessFormPaths || [];
                        if(config.skipEmptyTextNodesForObj === undefined) {
                                config.skipEmptyTextNodesForObj = true;
                        }
                        if(config.stripWhitespaces === undefined) {
                                config.stripWhitespaces = false;
                        }
                        config.datetimeAccessFormPaths = config.datetimeAccessFormPaths || [];

                        if(config.useDoubleQuotes === undefined) {
                                config.useDoubleQuotes = false;
                        }

                        config.xmlElementsFilter = config.xmlElementsFilter || [];
                        config.jsonPropertiesFilter = config.jsonPropertiesFilter || [];

                        if(config.keepCData === undefined) {
                                config.keepCData = false;
                        }
                }

                var DOMNodeTypes = {
                        ELEMENT_NODE       : 1,
                        TEXT_NODE          : 3,
                        CDATA_SECTION_NODE : 4,
                        COMMENT_NODE       : 8,
                        DOCUMENT_NODE      : 9
                };

                function initRequiredPolyfills() {
                }

                function getNodeLocalName( node ) {
                        var nodeLocalName = node.localName;
                        if(nodeLocalName == null) // Yeah, this is IE!!
                                nodeLocalName = node.baseName;
                        if(nodeLocalName == null || nodeLocalName=="") // =="" is IE too
                                nodeLocalName = node.nodeName;
                        return nodeLocalName;
                }

                function getNodePrefix(node) {
                        return node.prefix;
                }

                function escapeXmlChars(str) {
                        if(typeof(str) == "string")
                                return str.replace(/&/g, '&amp;').replace(/</g, '&lt;').replace(/>/g, '&gt;').replace(/"/g, '&quot;').replace(/'/g, '&apos;');
                        else
                                return str;
                }

                function unescapeXmlChars(str) {
                        return str.replace(/&lt;/g, '<').replace(/&gt;/g, '>').replace(/&quot;/g, '"').replace(/&apos;/g, "'").replace(/&amp;/g, '&');
                }

                function checkInStdFiltersArrayForm(stdFiltersArrayForm, obj, name, path) {
                        var idx = 0;
                        for(; idx < stdFiltersArrayForm.length; idx++) {
                                var filterPath = stdFiltersArrayForm[idx];
                                if( typeof filterPath === "string" ) {
                                        if(filterPath == path)
                                                break;
                                }
                                else
                                if( filterPath instanceof RegExp) {
                                        if(filterPath.test(path))
                                                break;
                                }
                                else
                                if( typeof filterPath === "function") {
                                        if(filterPath(obj, name, path))
                                                break;
                                }
                        }
                        return idx!=stdFiltersArrayForm.length;
                }

                function toArrayAccessForm(obj, childName, path) {
                        switch(config.arrayAccessForm) {
                                case "property":
                                        if(!(obj[childName] instanceof Array))
                                                obj[childName+"_asArray"] = [obj[childName]];
                                        else
                                                obj[childName+"_asArray"] = obj[childName];
                                        break;
                                /*case "none":
                                        break;*/
                        }

                        if(!(obj[childName] instanceof Array) && config.arrayAccessFormPaths.length > 0) {
                                if(checkInStdFiltersArrayForm(config.arrayAccessFormPaths, obj, childName, path)) {
                                        obj[childName] = [obj[childName]];
                                }
                        }
                }

                function fromXmlDateTime(prop) {
                        // Implementation based up on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8178598/xml-datetime-to-javascript-date-object
                        // Improved to support full spec and optional parts
                        var bits = prop.split(/[-T:+Z]/g);

                        var d = new Date(bits[0], bits[1]-1, bits[2]);
                        var secondBits = bits[5].split("\.");
                        d.setHours(bits[3], bits[4], secondBits[0]);
                        if(secondBits.length>1)
                                d.setMilliseconds(secondBits[1]);

                        // Get supplied time zone offset in minutes
                        if(bits[6] && bits[7]) {
                                var offsetMinutes = bits[6] * 60 + Number(bits[7]);
                                var sign = /\d\d-\d\d:\d\d$/.test(prop)? '-' : '+';

                                // Apply the sign
                                offsetMinutes = 0 + (sign == '-'? -1 * offsetMinutes : offsetMinutes);

                                // Apply offset and local timezone
                                d.setMinutes(d.getMinutes() - offsetMinutes - d.getTimezoneOffset())
                        }
                        else
                                if(prop.indexOf("Z", prop.length - 1) !== -1) {
                                        d = new Date(Date.UTC(d.getFullYear(), d.getMonth(), d.getDate(), d.getHours(), d.getMinutes(), d.getSeconds(), d.getMilliseconds()));
                                }

                        // d is now a local time equivalent to the supplied time
                        return d;
                }

                function checkFromXmlDateTimePaths(value, childName, fullPath) {
                        if(config.datetimeAccessFormPaths.length > 0) {
                                var path = fullPath.split("\.#")[0];
                                if(checkInStdFiltersArrayForm(config.datetimeAccessFormPaths, value, childName, path)) {
                                        return fromXmlDateTime(value);
                                }
                                else
                                        return value;
                        }
                        else
                                return value;
                }

                function checkXmlElementsFilter(obj, childType, childName, childPath) {
                        if( childType == DOMNodeTypes.ELEMENT_NODE && config.xmlElementsFilter.length > 0) {
                                return checkInStdFiltersArrayForm(config.xmlElementsFilter, obj, childName, childPath);
                        }
                        else
                                return true;
                }

                function parseDOMChildren( node, path ) {
                        if(node.nodeType == DOMNodeTypes.DOCUMENT_NODE) {
                                var result = new Object;
                                var nodeChildren = node.childNodes;
                                // Alternative for firstElementChild which is not supported in some environments
                                for(var cidx=0; cidx <nodeChildren.length; cidx++) {
                                        var child = nodeChildren.item(cidx);
                                        if(child.nodeType == DOMNodeTypes.ELEMENT_NODE) {
                                                var childName = getNodeLocalName(child);
                                                result[childName] = parseDOMChildren(child, childName);
                                        }
                                }
                                return result;
                        }
                        else
                        if(node.nodeType == DOMNodeTypes.ELEMENT_NODE) {
                                var result = new Object;
                                result.__cnt=0;

                                var nodeChildren = node.childNodes;

                                // Children nodes
                                for(var cidx=0; cidx <nodeChildren.length; cidx++) {
                                        var child = nodeChildren.item(cidx); // nodeChildren[cidx];
                                        var childName = getNodeLocalName(child);

                                        if(child.nodeType!= DOMNodeTypes.COMMENT_NODE) {
                                                var childPath = path+"."+childName;
                                                if (checkXmlElementsFilter(result,child.nodeType,childName,childPath)) {
                                                        result.__cnt++;
                                                        if(result[childName] == null) {
                                                                result[childName] = parseDOMChildren(child, childPath);
                                                                toArrayAccessForm(result, childName, childPath);
                                                        }
                                                        else {
                                                                if(result[childName] != null) {
                                                                        if( !(result[childName] instanceof Array)) {
                                                                                result[childName] = [result[childName]];
                                                                                toArrayAccessForm(result, childName, childPath);
                                                                        }
                                                                }
                                                                (result[childName])[result[childName].length] = parseDOMChildren(child, childPath);
                                                        }
                                                }
                                        }
                                }

                                // Attributes
                                for(var aidx=0; aidx <node.attributes.length; aidx++) {
                                        var attr = node.attributes.item(aidx); // [aidx];
                                        result.__cnt++;
                                        result[config.attributePrefix+attr.name]=attr.value;
                                }

                                // Node namespace prefix
                                var nodePrefix = getNodePrefix(node);
                                if(nodePrefix!=null && nodePrefix!="") {
                                        result.__cnt++;
                                        result.__prefix=nodePrefix;
                                }

                                if(result["#text"]!=null) {
                                        result.__text = result["#text"];
                                        if(result.__text instanceof Array) {
                                                result.__text = result.__text.join("\n");
                                        }
                                        //if(config.escapeMode)
                                        //      result.__text = unescapeXmlChars(result.__text);
                                        if(config.stripWhitespaces)
                                                result.__text = result.__text.trim();
                                        delete result["#text"];
                                        if(config.arrayAccessForm=="property")
                                                delete result["#text_asArray"];
                                        result.__text = checkFromXmlDateTimePaths(result.__text, childName, path+"."+childName);
                                }
                                if(result["#cdata-section"]!=null) {
                                        result.__cdata = result["#cdata-section"];
                                        delete result["#cdata-section"];
                                        if(config.arrayAccessForm=="property")
                                                delete result["#cdata-section_asArray"];
                                }

                                if( result.__cnt == 0 && config.emptyNodeForm=="text" ) {
                                        result = '';
                                }
                                else
                                if( result.__cnt == 1 && result.__text!=null  ) {
                                        result = result.__text;
                                }
                                else
                                if( result.__cnt == 1 && result.__cdata!=null && !config.keepCData  ) {
                                        result = result.__cdata;
                                }
                                else
                                if ( result.__cnt > 1 && result.__text!=null && config.skipEmptyTextNodesForObj) {
                                        if( (config.stripWhitespaces && result.__text=="") || (result.__text.trim()=="")) {
                                                delete result.__text;
                                        }
                                }
                                delete result.__cnt;

                                if( config.enableToStringFunc && (result.__text!=null || result.__cdata!=null )) {
                                        result.toString = function() {
                                                return (this.__text!=null? this.__text:'')+( this.__cdata!=null ? this.__cdata:'');
                                        };
                                }

                                return result;
                        }
                        else
                        if(node.nodeType == DOMNodeTypes.TEXT_NODE || node.nodeType == DOMNodeTypes.CDATA_SECTION_NODE) {
                                return node.nodeValue;
                        }
                }

                function startTag(jsonObj, element, attrList, closed) {
                        var resultStr = "<"+ ( (jsonObj!=null && jsonObj.__prefix!=null)? (jsonObj.__prefix+":"):"") + element;
                        if(attrList!=null) {
                                for(var aidx = 0; aidx < attrList.length; aidx++) {
                                        var attrName = attrList[aidx];
                                        var attrVal = jsonObj[attrName];
                                        if(config.escapeMode)
                                                attrVal=escapeXmlChars(attrVal);
                                        resultStr+=" "+attrName.substr(config.attributePrefix.length)+"=";
                                        if(config.useDoubleQuotes)
                                                resultStr+='"'+attrVal+'"';
                                        else
                                                resultStr+="'"+attrVal+"'";
                                }
                        }
                        if(!closed)
                                resultStr+=">";
                        else
                                resultStr+="/>";
                        return resultStr;
                }

                function endTag(jsonObj,elementName) {
                        return "</"+ (jsonObj.__prefix!=null? (jsonObj.__prefix+":"):"")+elementName+">";
                }

                function endsWith(str, suffix) {
                        return str.indexOf(suffix, str.length - suffix.length) !== -1;
                }

                function jsonXmlSpecialElem ( jsonObj, jsonObjField ) {
                        if((config.arrayAccessForm=="property" && endsWith(jsonObjField.toString(),("_asArray")))
                                        || jsonObjField.toString().indexOf(config.attributePrefix)==0
                                        || jsonObjField.toString().indexOf("__")==0
                                        || (jsonObj[jsonObjField] instanceof Function) )
                                return true;
                        else
                                return false;
                }

                function jsonXmlElemCount ( jsonObj ) {
                        var elementsCnt = 0;
                        if(jsonObj instanceof Object ) {
                                for( var it in jsonObj  ) {
                                        if(jsonXmlSpecialElem ( jsonObj, it) )
                                                continue;
                                        elementsCnt++;
                                }
                        }
                        return elementsCnt;
                }

                function checkJsonObjPropertiesFilter(jsonObj, propertyName, jsonObjPath) {
                        return config.jsonPropertiesFilter.length == 0
                                || jsonObjPath==""
                                || checkInStdFiltersArrayForm(config.jsonPropertiesFilter, jsonObj, propertyName, jsonObjPath);
                }

                function parseJSONAttributes ( jsonObj ) {
                        var attrList = [];
                        if(jsonObj instanceof Object ) {
                                for( var ait in jsonObj  ) {
                                        if(ait.toString().indexOf("__")== -1 && ait.toString().indexOf(config.attributePrefix)==0) {
                                                attrList.push(ait);
                                        }
                                }
                        }
                        return attrList;
                }

                function parseJSONTextAttrs ( jsonTxtObj ) {
                        var result ="";

                        if(jsonTxtObj.__cdata!=null) {
                                result+="<![CDATA["+jsonTxtObj.__cdata+"]]>";
                        }

                        if(jsonTxtObj.__text!=null) {
                                if(config.escapeMode)
                                        result+=escapeXmlChars(jsonTxtObj.__text);
                                else
                                        result+=jsonTxtObj.__text;
                        }
                        return result;
                }

                function parseJSONTextObject ( jsonTxtObj ) {
                        var result ="";

                        if( jsonTxtObj instanceof Object ) {
                                result+=parseJSONTextAttrs ( jsonTxtObj );
                        }
                        else
                                if(jsonTxtObj!=null) {
                                        if(config.escapeMode)
                                                result+=escapeXmlChars(jsonTxtObj);
                                        else
                                                result+=jsonTxtObj;
                                }

                        return result;
                }

                function getJsonPropertyPath(jsonObjPath, jsonPropName) {
                        if (jsonObjPath==="") {
                                return jsonPropName;
                        }
                        else
                                return jsonObjPath+"."+jsonPropName;
                }

                function parseJSONArray ( jsonArrRoot, jsonArrObj, attrList, jsonObjPath ) {
                        var result = "";
                        if(jsonArrRoot.length == 0) {
                                result+=startTag(jsonArrRoot, jsonArrObj, attrList, true);
                        }
                        else {
                                for(var arIdx = 0; arIdx < jsonArrRoot.length; arIdx++) {
                                        result+=startTag(jsonArrRoot[arIdx], jsonArrObj, parseJSONAttributes(jsonArrRoot[arIdx]), false);
                                        result+=parseJSONObject(jsonArrRoot[arIdx], getJsonPropertyPath(jsonObjPath,jsonArrObj));
                                        result+=endTag(jsonArrRoot[arIdx],jsonArrObj);
                                }
                        }
                        return result;
                }

                function parseJSONObject ( jsonObj, jsonObjPath ) {
                        var result = "";

                        var elementsCnt = jsonXmlElemCount ( jsonObj );

                        if(elementsCnt > 0) {
                                for( var it in jsonObj ) {

                                        if(jsonXmlSpecialElem ( jsonObj, it) || (jsonObjPath!="" && !checkJsonObjPropertiesFilter(jsonObj, it, getJsonPropertyPath(jsonObjPath,it))) )
                                                continue;

                                        var subObj = jsonObj[it];

                                        var attrList = parseJSONAttributes( subObj )

                                        if(subObj == null || subObj == undefined) {
                                                result+=startTag(subObj, it, attrList, true);
                                        }
                                        else
                                        if(subObj instanceof Object) {

                                                if(subObj instanceof Array) {
                                                        result+=parseJSONArray( subObj, it, attrList, jsonObjPath );
                                                }
                                                else if(subObj instanceof Date) {
                                                        result+=startTag(subObj, it, attrList, false);
                                                        result+=subObj.toISOString();
                                                        result+=endTag(subObj,it);
                                                }
                                                else {
                                                        var subObjElementsCnt = jsonXmlElemCount ( subObj );
                                                        if(subObjElementsCnt > 0 || subObj.__text!=null || subObj.__cdata!=null) {
                                                                result+=startTag(subObj, it, attrList, false);
                                                                result+=parseJSONObject(subObj, getJsonPropertyPath(jsonObjPath,it));
                                                                result+=endTag(subObj,it);
                                                        }
                                                        else {
                                                                result+=startTag(subObj, it, attrList, true);
                                                        }
                                                }
                                        }
                                        else {
                                                result+=startTag(subObj, it, attrList, false);
                                                result+=parseJSONTextObject(subObj);
                                                result+=endTag(subObj,it);
                                        }
                                }
                        }
                        result+=parseJSONTextObject(jsonObj);

                        return result;
                }

                this.parseXmlString = function(xmlDocStr) {
                        var isIEParser = false;
                        if (xmlDocStr === undefined) {
                                return null;
                        }
                        var xmlDoc;

                                // IE :(
                                if(xmlDocStr.indexOf("<?")==0) {
                                        xmlDocStr = xmlDocStr.substr( xmlDocStr.indexOf("?>") + 2 );
                                }
                                xmlDoc=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
                                xmlDoc.async="false";
                                xmlDoc.loadXML(xmlDocStr);

                        return xmlDoc;
                };

                this.asArray = function(prop) {
                        if (prop === undefined || prop == null)
                                return [];
                        else
                        if(prop instanceof Array)
                                return prop;
                        else
                                return [prop];
                };

                this.toXmlDateTime = function(dt) {
                        if(dt instanceof Date)
                                return dt.toISOString();
                        else
                        if(typeof(dt) === 'number' )
                                return new Date(dt).toISOString();
                        else
                                return null;
                };

                this.asDateTime = function(prop) {
                        if(typeof(prop) == "string") {
                                return fromXmlDateTime(prop);
                        }
                        else
                                return prop;
                };

                this.xml2json = function (xmlDoc) {
                        return parseDOMChildren ( xmlDoc );
                };

                this.xml_str2json = function (xmlDocStr) {
                        var xmlDoc = this.parseXmlString(xmlDocStr);
                        if(xmlDoc!=null)
                                return this.xml2json(xmlDoc);
                        else
                                return null;
                };

                this.json2xml_str = function (jsonObj) {
                        return parseJSONObject ( jsonObj, "" );
                };

                this.json2xml = function (jsonObj) {
                        var xmlDocStr = this.json2xml_str (jsonObj);
                        return this.parseXmlString(xmlDocStr);
                };

                this.getVersion = function () {
                        return VERSION;
                };
        }
}))


var x2js = new X2JS();
var jsonObj = x2js.xml_str2json( xml );

Watch.Log(JSON.stringify(jsonObj),3);
Watch.SetJobInfo(9,JSON.stringify(jsonObj));