Most of the JSON conversions from XML get it all wrong though. XML is not really an object (dict, hash) based meta-schema. It's an array-based meta-schema. XML->JSON conversions should look something like this:

    [ {"tag":"something", "attributes": { ... }, "nodes": [ ...] }, ... ]

with nodes being objects with one key to indicate if the node is a text node or an element, and if a text node then a value, and so on.