How to convert JSON to XML or XML to JSON?

Question

I started to use Json.NET to convert a string in JSON format to object or viceversa. I am not sure in the Json.NET framework, is it possible to convert a string in JSON to X

Answer 1

Try this function. I just wrote it and haven't had much of a chance to test it, but my preliminary tests are promising.

public static XmlDocument JsonToXml(string json)
{
    XmlNode newNode = null;
    XmlNode appendToNode = null;
    XmlDocument returnXmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
    returnXmlDoc.LoadXml("");
    XmlNode rootNode = returnXmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("Document");
    appendToNode = rootNode;

    string[] arrElementData;
    string[] arrElements = json.Split('\r');
    foreach (string element in arrElements)
    {
        string processElement = element.Replace("\r", "").Replace("\n", "").Replace("\t", "").Trim();
        if ((processElement.IndexOf("}") > -1 || processElement.IndexOf("]") > -1) && appendToNode != rootNode)
        {
            appendToNode = appendToNode.ParentNode;
        }
        else if (processElement.IndexOf("[") > -1)
        {
            processElement = processElement.Replace(":", "").Replace("[", "").Replace("\"", "").Trim();
            newNode = returnXmlDoc.CreateElement(processElement);
            appendToNode.AppendChild(newNode);
            appendToNode = newNode;
        }
        else if (processElement.IndexOf("{") > -1 && processElement.IndexOf(":") > -1)
        {
            processElement = processElement.Replace(":", "").Replace("{", "").Replace("\"", "").Trim();
            newNode = returnXmlDoc.CreateElement(processElement);
            appendToNode.AppendChild(newNode);
            appendToNode = newNode;
        }
        else
        {
            if (processElement.IndexOf(":") > -1)
            {
                arrElementData = processElement.Replace(": \"", ":").Replace("\",", "").Replace("\"", "").Split(':');
                newNode = returnXmlDoc.CreateElement(arrElementData[0]);
                for (int i = 1; i < arrElementData.Length; i++)
                {
                    newNode.InnerText += arrElementData[i];
                }

                appendToNode.AppendChild(newNode);
            }
        }
    }

    return returnXmlDoc;
}