JSONtoXML Method

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Description

Converts a JSON string to an XML representation.

Syntax

Visual Basic
Public Function JSONtoXML( _ ByVal JSON As String _ ) As String

Parameters

JSON: A JSON string to convert to XML.

Return Type

An XML markup of the JSON string.

Remarks

All Chromium DevTools Inspector Protocol methods require JSON for input and return JSON for output.

Unless you have a JSON parser you can use an XML parser as an alternative by converting the JSON output to XML and processing it with MSXML COM library and XPath queries.

Example

This example demonstrates how to handle OnDevToolsWebSocket event for CSS.styleSheetAdded Inspector Protocol Event and convert the JSON data to XML data.

Parse XML into XML DOM (Visual Basic)

Private Sub WebKitX_OnDevToolsWebSocket(ByVal Data As String)
    
    On Error Resume Next
    If InStr(Data, "CSS.styleSheetAdded") > 0 Then
        Dim xDOM As Object
        Set xDOM = XML_DOM(JSONtoXML(Data))
        StyleSheets.Add xDOM.selectSingleNode("//styleSheetId").Text, xDOM.selectSingleNode("//sourceURL").Text
    End If
    Err.Clear

End Sub

Public Function XML_DOM(Optional sAnyXML) As IXMLDOMDocument
    Dim xDOM As DOMDocument30
    Set xDOM = New DOMDocument30
    xDOM.Async = False
    xDOM.resolveExternals = False
    xDOM.validateOnParse = False
    If Not IsMissing(sAnyXML) Then
        If IsObject(sAnyXML) Then
            xDOM.Load sAnyXML
        ElseIf sAnyXML <> vbNullString Then
            If InStrB(sAnyXML, "<") Then
                xDOM.loadXML sAnyXML
            Else
                xDOM.Load sAnyXML
            End If
        End If
    End If
    xDOM.SetProperty "SelectionLanguage", "XPath"
    xDOM.SetProperty "SelectionNamespaces", vbNullString
    Set XML_DOM = xDOM
End Function