- version 2.x offers an improved JSON layout (compared to v1.x), so it's easier to parse a resulting JSON
- command interface switches also changed (to reflect action semantic better)
the tool offers following behaviors:
- HTML/XML tags semantic unaware - convertor does not keep track or tag meaning, see conversion specification below
- converted JSON is possible to reistate back to its original format XML/HTML (thanks to lossless conversion)
- detects malformed HTML/XML (i.e. closed tags w/o corresponding openning) and automatically fixing it (optionally could be disabled)
- each tag is translated into a JSON object, with a single label - name of the tag
- all attributes go into object with the label
attributes(a default label, could be changed by user) - a value of the tag (i.e. everything between opening and closing tags) is merged into the tag label
- empty tags w/o attributes will be set to JSON
nullvalue
- source HTML sample:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML example</title>
<meta charset="utf-8">
</head>
<body text="green">
<p>
Oh Brother,<br>
Where Art Thou?<br>
</p>
</body>
</html>
- is converted into JSON:
[
{
"!": "DOCTYPE html"
},
{
"html": [
{
"head": [
{
"title": "HTML example"
},
{
"meta": {
"attributes": {
"charset": "utf-8"
}
}
}
]
},
{
"body": [
{
"attributes": {
"text": "green"
}
},
{
"p": [
"Oh Brother,",
{
"br": null
},
"Where Art Thou?",
{
"br": null
}
]
}
]
}
]
}
]
- and recovered from JSON back to HTML:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML example</title>
<meta charset="utf-8">
</head>
<body text="green">
<p>Oh Brother,<br>Where Art Thou?<br>
</p>
</body>
</html>
For compiling c++14 (or later) is required:
- to compile under macOS, use cli:
c++ -o jtm -Wall -std=c++14 -Ofast jtm.cpp - To compile under Linux, use cli:
c++ -o jtm -Wall -std=gnu++14 -static -Ofast jtm.cpp
or download latest precompiled binary:
download jtm-master.zip, unzip it, descend into unzipped folder, compile using
an appropriate command, move compiled file into an install location.
here's the example steps (for macOS):
- say,
jtm-master.ziphas been downloaded to a folder and the terminal app is open in that folder: unzip jtm-master.zipcd jtm-masterc++ -o jtm -Wall -std=c++14 -Ofast jtm.cppsudo mv ./jtm /usr/local/bin/
bash $ jtm -h
usage: jtm [-defhnqr] [-a label] [-i indent] [src_file]
HTML/XML to JSON and back lossless convertor.
Version 2.08, developed by Dmitry Lyssenko (ldn.softdev@gmail.com)
optional arguments:
-d turn on debugs (multiple calls increase verbosity)
-e enlist even single values (otherwise don't)
-f digitize all numerical strings
-h help screen
-n do not retry parsing upon facing a closing tag w/o its pair
-q enforce strict JSON's quoted solidus parsing
-r print json in a raw (compact) format
-a label a label used for attribute values [default: attributes]
-i indent indent for pretty printing [default: 3]
standalone arguments:
src_file file to read source from [default: <stdin>]
the tool is html/xml tag semantic agnostic, follows conversion specification:
<tag> </tag> <-> { "tag": [] }
<tag> ... </tag> <-> { "tag": [ <...> ] }
<tag attributes> </tag> <-> { "tag": [ { <attributes> } ] }
<tag attributes> ... </tag> <-> { "tag": [ { <attributes> }, <...> ] }
<self_closed attributes /> <-> { "self_closed/": { <attributes> } }
<self_closed/> <-> { "self_closed/": null }
<empty_tag attributes> <-> { "empty_tag": { <attributes> } }
<empty_tag> <-> { "empty_tag": null }
<!...> <-> { "!": <...> }
<?tag attributes> <-> { "?tag": { <attributes> } }
<?tag> <-> { "?tag": null }
- if a tag enlists a single value then it's value de-listed (default behavior,
could be disabled optionally), unless the value is "attributes" - then no
delisting occurs
bash $
- Once HTML/XML is converted to JSON, use jtc tool to extract / manipulated JSON data
Here's a trivial example how use them together.
Say, we want to remove from the original html document all specific tags (and their content respecitvely)?
Let it be tag <br> in the above html sample. A simple way to do it would be like this:
bash $ cat sample.html | jtm | jtc -w '<br>l+0[-1]' -p | jtm
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML example</title>
<meta charset="utf-8">
</head>
<body text="green">
<p>Oh Brother,Where Art Thou?</p>
</body>
</html>
bash $
As easy as a pie!