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XMLSpy® 2012 provides comprehensive JSON editing support as well as JSON to XML conversion, and XML to JSON conversion.

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a light-weight, text-based language for data interchange. JSON is often used for serializing and transmitting structured data over a network connection and therefore is commonly used in AJAX and Web services applications. It was originally based on a subset of the JavaScript language, but is now considered programming language-independent, as parsers for JSON are readily available in multiple languages.

The JSON editor in XMLSpy allows you to view and edit JSON files using the same intuitive Text and Grid Views available for XML editing, with useful editing guides and entry helpers.

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JSON Editor - Text View

The JSON editor Text View provides syntax coloring, line numbering, source folding, bookmarking, and more, making it easy to comprehend and navigate your JSON code, and find and edit strings. When you enable intelligent JSON editing on the JSON tab of the XMLSpy Info window, the Elements entry helper window provides a dynamically built list of the elements present in your JSON file. You can insert an element from the Elements window by double clicking it, or by dragging it into your document in the editing pane.

Syntax checking in the JSON editor allows you to check that your JSON document is well formed. Any errors are listed in the multi-tabbed Messages window, which also includes a hyperlink to the instance of the error in your document.

JSON Editor - Grid View

The JSON editor Grid View provides a graphical representation that shows the structure / outline of a JSON document through a set of nested containers. These can be easily expanded and collapsed to get a clear picture of the JSON document's tree-like structure. Grid View in XMLSpy allows you to directly manipulate your JSON document while analyzing its structure in a graphical manner, using advanced drag-and-drop, intelligent XML editing functions. Grid View also provides the Elements entry helper window when intelligent JSON editing is enabled.

Unlike any other XML editor, XMLSpy supports both JSON and XML, giving you an easy way to work with JSON in the same environment where you're developing XML, AJAX, and Web services applications. This puts an end to the recent “XML vs. JSON” arguments and gives developers the best of both worlds.

JSON <=> XML conversion

In addition to intelligent JSON editing, XMLSpy® 2012 supports one-click conversion between XML and JSON files. This allows you to, for example, quickly convert an XML file to JSON for transport with JavaScript, or convert data received in JSON format to valid XML.

The screenshots below show a JSON file being converted to XML using the JSON converter in XMLSpy. XML files may also be converted to JSON.

JSON file:

Resulting XML file:

Check out all the powerful functionality for editing and converting JSON and XML files for your Web 2.0 and Web services applications.

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