Badgerfish

BadgerFish is a convention for translating an XML document into a JSON object.

The rules

• element names become object properties
• text content of elements goes in the $ property of an object
• nested elements become nested properties
• multiple elements at the same level become array elements
• attributes go in properties whose names begin with @
• active namespaces for an element go in the element's @xmlns property
• the default namespace URI goes in @xmlns.$
• other namespaces go in other properties of @xmlns
• elements with namespace prefixes become object properties, too

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'badgerfish'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install badgerfish

require 'badgerfish'

parser = Badgerfish::Parser.new
xml = '<alice charlie="david">bob</alice>'
badgerfish_hash = parser.load(xml)

Does not handle child node namespaces as suggested by http://badgerfish.ning.com (case 9).

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

• http://badgerfish.ning.com
• http://wiki.open311.org/JSON_and_XML_Conversion/#the-badgerfish-convention