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final notes on attempts to convert XML to JSON in Max

update: this conversion may be built into Max 6.1.7… [js]

For now I am using the following method:

  • Write xml using jit.textfile
  • use aka.shell to convert xml to json using python script xml2json.py (modified header)
  • read the json file in using method in JSON_Readwrite.maxhelp

Its not elegant but it works on the MAC – without installing additional software, like node.js and all of its packages.

update: 3 weeks later. Have been using the above method and also calling curl from aka.shell – writing XML files to /tmp – Then following steps 2 and 3 above. Works fine.

 

 

 

 

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Max XML to JSON conversion

update 6/2014 – In the internet-sensors chatbot project, I am using a python script to convert xml to json: https://reactivemusic.net/?p=9834 – also the most recent version of Max 6.1.8 now includes JSON parsing in the javascript object

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Lest I completely forget. There is now an xml.parse object in max.

  • So I have figured out how to write xml files from an http request using jit.textfile
  • How to read an xml file into javascript
  • many ways of parsing xml in max using externals from sadam, jasch, and xml.parse – see weather report from mz
  • some – ways of converting xml to json using php (not quite), java, and node.js – but not yet in core javascript.

So the current approach is to try to find or write a javascript function to convert and xml string to a json object – or even to a json string. Or to find a generic xml/json converter which can be run in the background from the command line

 

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Max XML to JSON

update 4/2014 – Max6.1.7 js object now incudes JSON parsing

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(update) none of these worked – the solution ended up being a patch from Peter Nyoeber explained elsewhere in this blog…

Looking for a solution to converting xml to json in max

https://gist.github.com/4153569

From this…

http://davidwalsh.name/convert-xml-json

From Stack Overflow – a simple function…

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7769829/tool-javascript-to-convert-a-xml-string-to-json