What is the IZHubs XML Viewer?
The IZHubs XML Viewer is a free online environment for formatting, reading, and converting Extensible Markup Language (XML).
If you are a modern developer forced to work with a legacy API (like SOAP) or an old RSS feed, you probably received a massive, unindented wall of XML text. Our parser instantly transforms that unreadable blob into a clean, collapsible tree view so you can visually debug the data.
Features: Viewing & Converting XML
- Syntax Formatting: Paste minified or ugly XML strings into the editor to instantly “Beautify” them with proper indentation, spacing, and color-coded tag highlighting.
- Error Detection: Missing a closing tag (e.g.,
<name>without</name>)? The tool will instantly flag the exact line number where the DOM structure broke so you can fix it. - XML to JSON Conversion: With a single click, translate your entire XML payload into a modern JSON object, stripping away the heavy formatting overhead of markup tags.
Local Security: This viewer operates strictly on the client-side. Your proprietary configuration files and database exports never hit an external server.
XML vs JSON: Why Convert?
While XML was the standard data-transfer protocol of the 2000s, modern web architectures heavily favor JSON because it is natively parsed by JavaScript environments. Extracting deeply nested attributes in XML requires heavy XPath parsers, whereas a converted JSON file allows direct, dot-notation access (user.name).
If your newly converted JSON payload throws parsing errors in your JS engine, read our debugging guides on Fixing the Unexpected Token Error and How to Unescape nested data.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I convert JSON back into XML? Yes, our engine works bi-directionally. If you need to generate an XML Sitemap or a configuration payload for a legacy system, you can easily paste your structured JSON data to output clean markup.
Does it read XML Attributes or just Text Nodes?
Both. When translating XML to JSON, the tool will map standard text nodes to simple keys, and preserve XML attributes (like <user id="5">) using special key prefixes so no data is lost during the translation process.