I don’t think that is true. There are multiple ways to model XML into json.
See this http://badgerfish.ning.com <http://badgerfish.ning.com/> for one of them. > On Apr 23, 2024, at 11:43 AM, burak serdar <bser...@computer.org> wrote: > > In general, you cannot convert xml to json. They have incompatible > models. XML elements are ordered similar to a JSON array, but in many > cases you want to map XML elements to JSON objects, which are > unordered name-value collections. Also, there is no JSON equivalent of > an XML attribute. > > If you want to work with XML, either use xml marshaling, or find a > third-party DOM library. > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 10:29 AM Don Caldwell <dfw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Disclaimer - I am very new to golang. >> I puzzled about this for a few days. After some struggle, I got a little >> program working that parses >> arbitrary xml into a structure that json can understand. You can find it >> here: >> https://github.com/dfwcnj/gxmldecode >> >> On Thursday, October 7, 2021 at 10:06:30 AM UTC-4 RS wrote: >>> >>> What is the best approach to convert xml to json? >>> However I need above all to parse a very complex xml to see if related >>> properties are existing. >>> I thought maybe converting it to Json maybe make it easier. >>> >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "golang-nuts" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/90c0dd22-2d81-4393-b534-651a2376f386n%40googlegroups.com. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAMV2RqowOgbOnmGxsWegOuJ-_crQcNhsjj1Gxk3pAXhBmtNK5Q%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/1415B2A9-7CB5-4D33-B47F-FB7992B7165D%40ix.netcom.com.