JSON to XML and vice versa

[Thys]

Hi,

Just wondering if there is an easy way to convert from JSON to XML and vice versa? Should probably be methods within jfiles and xfiles.

Thys

[Bruce]

it's an intriguing idea,
are you thinking of a "known" structure, or "any" structure?

cheers
Bruce

[osquiabro]

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[Thys]

Hi Bruce.

Both jFiles and xFiles work from the premise on the one side to have a fixed Clarion data structure, and on the other side the formatted text structure - and the class methods assist to convert from the one structure to the other. But with this I think it would be (for example) an XML object being created from a JSON object's method - and vice versa, so there should be no need for a Clarion structure to do the conversion.

Thys

[Thys]

try with demo of easyxml http://www.ingasoftplus.com/Downloads.php?ProductID=293

Thanks, I'll have a look at it.

[Bruce]

If both had an interim "format free" state then yes, you are right, it should be possible.
jFiles does have such a state, but alas xFiles does not.

So it would be relatively easy to create xml from Json - simply by adding an output method to jFiles so save the interim state to xml instead of json.

In practice everyone would want waaay too much control over the xml - this should be an attribute, that should be a field, and so on.

I'm sure there are tools to do this, but it's not a road I have a need to go down <g>.

cheers
Bruce