Json2xml

json2xml

Quick Start

• Command: json2xml < data.json > data.xml
• Local executable: /home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin/json2xml
• Reference: See references/help.md for detailed usage and options.

When To Use This Tool

• Convert structured JSON into XML so it can be inspected with xtract or merged into XML-side pipelines.
• Bridge JSON-speaking tooling into the XML-centric parts of an EDirect workflow.
• Normalize simple object trees before downstream XML extraction or archiving.

Common Patterns

# 1) Convert a JSON document into XML
json2xml < data.json > data.xml

# 2) Convert and inspect the resulting XML immediately
json2xml < data.json | sed -n '1,40p'

Recommended Workflow

1. Start with a representative JSON sample from the upstream source.
2. Feed it to json2xml through stdin redirection or a pipe.
3. Inspect the first emitted XML blocks before converting a full dataset.
4. Pass the XML to xtract, xml2tbl, or other downstream XML-side tools once the shape looks right.

Guardrails

• This wrapper simply calls transmute -j2x, so the companion transmute binary must be on PATH.
• --help and --version are not real metadata switches here; in this build they are converted into literal XML tags like <--help>.
• Prefer stdin/pipes over positional filenames. In a smoke test, passing a filename argument caused the literal path string to be wrapped as XML content.
• The converter emits a <root> / <opt> style wrapper for a simple object, so check that downstream tools expect that structure.