How to prevent same name XML tags being converted to Array when converting the XML String to JSON using Python?

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I have an XML file which has the following format -

<root>
   <tag>
   This is the first Value.
   </tag>
   <tag>
   This is the second Value.
   </tag>
</root>

When I convert this XML string to JSON in Python using the following code

jsonString=json.dumps(XML_String)

The tag becomes an array and the JSON file I get is like this -

{"root":["tag":"This is the first Value",
         "tag":"This is the second Value"]}

What I actually want is the <root> tag should be an object instead of an array. Like this -

{"root":{"tag":"This is the first Value",
         "tag":"This is the second Value"}}

How to achieve such kind of format?

Michael Kay · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-05 09:16:18Z

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What you want to generate is invalid JSON.

Well, perhaps not totally invalid, but at least contrary to good practice: RFC 8259 says: "When the names within an object are not unique, the behavior of software that receives such an object is unpredictable. Many implementations report the last name/value pair only. Other implementations report an error or fail to parse the object, and some implementations report all of the name/value pairs, including duplicates."

So don't do it.

answered Oct 5, 2018 at 9:16

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Vishal · Accepted Answer · 2019-03-11 10:40:12Z

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I solved this problem by creating customized JSON string. And it actually worked. Arrays were not created.

answered Mar 11, 2019 at 10:40

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