Developer Tools Articles (6)
JSON Formatting Guide: Format, Read and Debug JSON
A practical guide to formatting JSON: step-by-step use, choosing indentation, fixing the 10 most common errors, and what a formatter can silently change in your data.
How to Minify JSON: What You Save and What to Watch For
Minify JSON step by step, with measured size savings, a look at gzip, when minifying helps, and the few ways the output can differ from your input.
Convert JSON to Excel and CSV: How Nested Data Becomes a Table
How JSON becomes rows and columns: the flattening rules, what lands in the CSV and XLSX files, and the cases where nested data, IDs and formulas need care.
JSON to XML: How the Mapping Works and Where It Breaks
How our JSON to XML converter maps objects, arrays and values, how it picks the root element, which cases give invalid XML, and what it cannot express.
JSON Validation Guide: What "Valid JSON" Does and Does Not Mean
Use a JSON validator properly: read the report, find where the real mistake is, handle copy-paste problems, and know what syntax checking cannot catch.
XML to JSON: Conversion Conventions and Their Pitfalls
How our XML to JSON converter treats attributes, repeated elements, text, namespaces and CDATA, which inputs lose data, and how to read parser errors.