transform an xml into suitable text

I have an xml, that looks like this

<person>
   <name>
      <name-first>foo</name-first>
      <name-last开发者_如何转开发>bar</name-last>
   </name>
   <age>20</age>
   <city>nowhere</city>
 </person>

I want to convert this into

person:
   {
     name: {
             name-first:'foo', 
             name-last:'bar'  
           }, 
    age:'20',
    city:'nowhere' 
  }

Thanks in advance.

What you want is an XML to JSON converter.

Try this one: http://www.thomasfrank.se/xml_to_json.html

Here is a simple transformation -- for a start:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:output method="text"/>
 <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

 <xsl:param name="pIndents" select="'  '"/>

 <xsl:template match="*[*]">
   <xsl:param name="pcurrentIndents" select="''"/>
     <xsl:value-of select="concat($pcurrentIndents, name(), ':')"/>
     <xsl:value-of select="concat('&#xA;',$pcurrentIndents, '{')"/>
      <xsl:apply-templates>
        <xsl:with-param name="pcurrentIndents" select=
         "concat($pcurrentIndents, $pIndents)"/>
      </xsl:apply-templates>
     <xsl:value-of select="concat('&#xA;',$pcurrentIndents,  '}')"/>
 </xsl:template>

 <xsl:template match="*[not(*)]">
  <xsl:param name="pcurrentIndents" select="''"/>
  <xsl:text>&#xA;</xsl:text>
  <xsl:value-of select="concat($pcurrentIndents, name(), ':')"/>
  <xsl:apply-templates/>
 </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

when this transformation is applied on the provided XML document:

<person>
    <name>
        <name-first>foo</name-first>
        <name-last>bar</name-last>
    </name>
    <age>20</age>
    <city>nowhere</city>
</person>

the wanted, correct result is produced:

person:
{  name:
  {
    name-first:foo
    name-last:bar
  }
  age:20
  city:nowhere
}

Explanation:

1. There are two templates that match elements.

2. The template matching *[*] matches elements that have elements as children. It produces the name of the currently matched element using the name() function, then the : character, then a NL charactr, the current indentation (number of spaces) and finally the { character. Then templates are applied to the children-nodes of the currently matched element with the $pcurrentIndents parameter passing the current indentation increased with a predifined increment of space characters (as specified in the global parameter $pIndents Finally, on a new line and using the current indentation, the closing curly brace is putput.

3. The template that matches *[not(*)] (elements that dont have any element as a child) is similar, but simpler. It Outputs the name of the matched element at the current indentation and the : character. Applying templates here invokes th XSLT built-in templates for non-element nodes -- in this case the built-in template matching a text node is selected and it simply copies the text node to the output.

Here is an example xsl template which should give you some idea of how to convert your xml to the required output:

<xsl:template match="person">
person:
   {
     name: {
             name-first:<xsl:value-of select="name/name-first"/>, 
             name-last:<xsl:value-of select="name/name-last"/>  
           }, 
    age:<xsl:value-of select="age"/>,
    city:<xsl:value-of select="city"/> 
  }
</xsl:template>

There are a number of general-purpose XSLT solutions available for converting XML into JSON output.

For instance:

• http://code.google.com/p/xml2json-xslt/
• http://www.bramstein.com/projects/xsltjson/

I ran your XML through xml2json-xslt's xml2json.xslt and generated the following JSON output:

{
  "person":
     {
       "name":
         {
           "name-first":"foo",
           "name-last":"bar"
         },
         "age":20,
         "city":"nowhere"
      }
 }