Position of elements inside #text is lost

[j0hannes]

Example:

print(json.dumps(xmltodict.parse('<x>a <b>c</b> d</x>'), indent=2)){
  "x": {
    "b": "c",
    "#text": "a  d"
  }
}

How do I know that "c" goes between "a " and " d"?

[javadev]

It may be other json.

{
  "x": {
    "#text": "a ",
    "b": "c",
    "#text1": " d"
  },
  "#omit-xml-declaration": "yes"
}

[hholst80]

The solution to this could be to make x a list of objects.

{
  "x": [
    { "#text": "a " },
    { "b": "c" },
    { "#text": " d" }
  ]
}

[gdh1995]

I also expect this, because some of my XML looks like:

<list>
  <key>1</key>
  <value>results 1<value>
  <key>2</key>
  <value>results 2<value>
<list>

And the order is decided by other applications and can not be changed.

I suggest a new syntax of:

{
  "$list": [
     { "#comment": "1" },
     { "key": 1 },
     "text data",
     { "value": "..." }
  ]
}