XML to JSON using XSLT on selected nodes - json

Question

I am in middle of my development, I have an XML response for which i have to convert to JSON, Using data mapper i am able to convert it, But i am facing issue when converting some of the xml nodes, all
<avalues>
are not showing up in json.
For Eg my xml response is
<data>
<avalue1>1</avalue1>
<avalue2>2</avalue2>
<avalue3>3</avalue3>
<data>
and i want to convert it as below
{
"cn":
{
"avalue1": "1",
"avalue2": "2",
"avalue3": "3"
},
}
i am using xslt
<xsl:for-each select="data/avalue"> <avalue> <xsl:value-of select="(.,'string')[. ne ''][1]"/> </avalue> </xsl:for-each>
thanks--

Answer 1

I suppose you XML can be not only with one data block, so for visible example I took your part into XML as below (edited):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<cn>
<data>
<avalue1>1</avalue1>
<avalue2>2</avalue2>
<avalue3>3</avalue3>
</data>
<data>
<avalue4>4</avalue4>
<avalue5>5</avalue5>
<avalue6>6</avalue6>
</data>
</cn>
So, in XSL you can firstly create your string per data block and then combine them all as below (edited):
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="text" />
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:variable name="output">
<xsl:for-each select="/cn/data">
<xsl:variable name="avalues">
<xsl:for-each select="*">
<!--create string per data as e.g. "avalue1": "1", "avalue2": "2", "avalue3": "3" -->
<xsl:value-of select="concat('"', name(), '"',': ', '"', ., '"', ', ')"/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:variable>
<!--combine per each data block-->
<xsl:value-of select="concat('{ ', substring($avalues, 0, string-length($avalues)-1), ' },')"/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:variable>
<!--perform final result with required format-->
<xsl:value-of select="concat('{', '"', 'cn', '"', ':[', substring($output, 1, string-length($output)-1), ']}')"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Result (edited) will be as expected (in final value-of you can add your own format - spaces, signs etc.):
{"cn":[
{ "avalue1": "1", "avalue2": "2", "avalue3": "3" },
{ "avalue4": "4", "avalue5": "5", "avalue6": "6" }
]}