var not_whitespace = new RegExp(/[^\s]/);//This can be given inside the funciton - I made it a global variable to make the scipt a little bit faster. var parent_count; //Process the xml data function xml2array(xmlDoc,parent_count) { var arr; var parent = ""; parent_count = parent_count || new Object; var attribute_inside = 0; /*:CONFIG: Value - 1 or 0 * If 1, Value and Attribute will be shown inside the tag - like this... * For the XML string... * http://www.bin-co.com/ * The resulting array will be... * array['guid']['value'] = "http://www.bin-co.com/"; * array['guid']['attribute_isPermaLink'] = "true"; * * If 0, the value will be inside the tag but the attribute will be outside - like this... * For the same XML String the resulting array will be... * array['guid'] = "http://www.bin-co.com/"; * array['attribute_guid_isPermaLink'] = "true"; */ if(xmlDoc.nodeName && xmlDoc.nodeName.charAt(0) != "#") { if(xmlDoc.childNodes.length > 1) { //If its a parent arr = new Object; parent = xmlDoc.nodeName; } } var value = xmlDoc.nodeValue; if(xmlDoc.parentNode && xmlDoc.parentNode.nodeName && value) { if(not_whitespace.test(value)) {//If its a child arr = new Object; arr[xmlDoc.parentNode.nodeName] = value; } } if(xmlDoc.childNodes.length) { if(xmlDoc.childNodes.length == 1) { //Just one item in this tag. arr = xml2array(xmlDoc.childNodes[0],parent_count); //:RECURSION: } else { //If there is more than one childNodes, go thru them one by one and get their results. var index = 0; for(var i=0; i2) break;//We just need to know wether it is a single value array or not } if(assoc && arr_count == 1) { if(arr[key]) { //If another element exists with the same tag name before, // put it in a numeric array. //Find out how many time this parent made its appearance if(!parent_count || !parent_count[key]) { parent_count[key] = 0; var temp_arr = arr[key]; arr[key] = new Object; arr[key][0] = temp_arr; } parent_count[key]++; arr[key][parent_count[key]] = temp[key]; //Members of of a numeric array } else { parent_count[key] = 0; arr[key] = temp[key]; if(xmlDoc.childNodes[i].attributes && xmlDoc.childNodes[i].attributes.length) { for(var j=0; j