xson 1.0.1

XSON: XML Encoding for JSON

XML Encoding for JSON

XSON is a Python package that supports the serialization of Python objects to XML documents according to the JSONx specification (draft), as well as the deserialization of JSONx documents to Python objects. The implementation aims at being API-compatible with Python’s standard JSON package.

Requirements

• Python >= 3.4

• pip and setuptools Python packages (the latter is automatically installed by pip)

Install

The quick way:

pip install xson

Alternatively, by cloning the project and running setuptools:

python setup.py install

Usage

Example:

>>> import xson
>>> out = xson.dumps({'foo': 42, 'bar': [3.14, 'baz', True, None]}, indent=4)
>>> print(out)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<json:object xmlns:json="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/2009/jsonx">
    <json:number name="foo">42</json:number>
    <json:array name="bar">
        <json:number>3.14</json:number>
        <json:string>baz</json:string>
        <json:boolean>true</json:boolean>
        <json:null/>
    </json:array>
</json:object>

>>> dct = xson.loads(out)
>>> print(dct)
{'foo': 42, 'bar': [3.14, 'baz', True, None]}

Copyright and Licensing

Licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License.