Is there simple way of converting XML to JSON, without binding XML to a java object first?
Just like how this does it -- http://www.utilities-online.info/xmltojson/
You can build a custom transformer[1] based on json-lib[2].
[1] http://www.mulesoft.org/documentation/display/current/Creating+Custom+Transformers
[2] http://json-lib.sourceforge.net/