MarkLogic Server 11.0 Product Documentation

json:transform-to-json-object

json:transform-to-json-object(
   $node as node(),
   $config as map:map
) as item()*

Summary

This function transforms an XML document to JSON and returns an object.

Usage Notes

The supplied document (element or document node) is transformed to JSON using the default (basic) strategy and returned as an object. The object will be either a json:object or json:array.

When the default "basic" strategy is used, the XML node must be in the http://marklogic.com/xdmp/json/basic namespace.

See Also

• Converting JSON to XML and XML to JSON in the Application Developer's Guide
• How MarkLogic Represents JSON Documents in the Application Developer's Guide

Example

xquery version '1.0-ml';
import module namespace json = "http://marklogic.com/xdmp/json"
    at "/MarkLogic/json/json.xqy";

json:transform-to-json-object(
  <root>
    <key>value</key>
  </root>, 
  json:config("full"))

(: The following JSON Object is produced: 

{
  "root": {
    "_children": [
      {
        "key": { 
        "_children": ["value"]
        }
      }
    ]
  }
} :)