Convert JSON to XML

Convert JSON to XML in your browser: load your JSON, choose XML as the target, and download the result. The converter reports exactly what it could not carry across, and nothing is uploaded to a server.

Convert JSON to XMLRuns in your browser. Nothing uploaded.

When you need this

Older enterprise systems, SOAP endpoints, banking interfaces and a great many government APIs still require XML. If you are integrating with one, this is the shape it wants, and the mismatch you have to resolve is that JSON has arrays and XML does not.

How to convert JSON to XML

Load your JSON

Drag the .json file in, paste the text, or open it straight from a URL — an API response usually arrives as a paste. Nothing leaves your browser at this or any later step.

Choose the target format

Press Ctrl+Shift+K (Cmd+Shift+K on a Mac) to open the conversion panel, then pick XML as the target. The source and the result sit side by side.

Read the loss report

The panel shows whether the conversion is lossless for your particular data, and lists every value it had to transform. Adjust indentation, key sorting and null handling if you need to.

Take the XML

Download the .xml file, copy it, or open it as a new tab to keep working on it in the XML views.

What survives the conversion

JSON to XML cannot be lossless, because the two formats express different things. XML needs a single root element, and has no native array — repeated elements are an approximation.

• XML requires exactly one root element. An array at the root is wrapped in a generated element, and the wrapper name appears in the warnings so you can match it to what the receiving schema expects.
• XML has no array type. Repeated sibling elements are the closest equivalent, which means a one-element array and a plain value produce identical XML and are indistinguishable on the way back.
• Keys that are not valid XML names — starting with a digit, or containing a space — are rewritten, because an element cannot be named 2024 total.

A worked example

An array becoming repeated elements under a generated root:

{ "tags": ["red", "blue"] }

<root>
  <tags>red</tags>
  <tags>blue</tags>
</root>

Privacy

The conversion runs in your browser — in a Web Worker for anything above a quarter of a megabyte, so the page stays responsive. Your data is not uploaded, not logged and not stored. There is no account, and the whole thing works offline.

Convert JSON to XML