Preceding 0 gets removed while converting XML String to JSON Object [duplicate]

Question

I am facing a strange issue while converting an XML string into JSON object in Java. I am using org.json.jar for to construct the JSON object but if one of the xml tag contains number, starting with 0, that number is appearing wrong in the JSON object.

Could anyone please help me to sort this out please? Please find below the method I am using to convert the XML string to JSON and also I have provided the input and output.

Method :

public static String toJSON(String xml) {
    String json = null;
    try {
        JSONObject jobj = XML.toJSONObject((String)xml);
        json = jobj.toString();

    }catch (JSONException e) {
        System.out.println("Json Exception " + (Object)e);
    }
    return json;
}

Input :

<box>0X</box> <number>012345</number>

Output : After converting to Json : {"number":"5349","box":"0X"}

In XML I have given number as 012345 but in JSON it is appearing as 5349! I am expecting 012345 in JSON as well.

Any help on this will be really helpful. Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

See similar question. The problem is in the implementation of stringToValue method in org.json.XML.

To disable automatic conversion to int/long which will strip out the leading zero, you can put the string value in CDATA and then it will work. e.g. the input could be:

<box>0X</box><number><![CDATA[012345]]></number>