JavaScript Object Tree Format

The JavaScript object tree format in an representation of XML data in JSON.

Suppose following XML document should be generated:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<family name="Kawasaki">
    <father>Yasuhisa</father>
    <mother>Chizuko</mother>
    <children>
        <girl>Shiori</girl>
        <boy>Yusuke</boy>
        <boy>Kairi</boy>
    </children>
</family>

Then the corresponding object tree would look like this:

{
    "family": {
        "-name":    "Kawasaki",
        "father":   "Yasuhisa",
        "mother":   "Chizuko",
        "children': {
            "girl": "Shiori"
            "boy': [
                "Yusuke",
                "Kairi"
            ]
        }
    }
};

Each elements are parsed into objects:

tree.family.father;             // the father's given name.

Prefix '-' is inserted before every attributes' name.

tree.family["-name"];           // this family's family name

A array is used because this family has two boys.

tree.family.children.boy[0];    // first boy's name
tree.family.children.boy[1];    // second boy's name
tree.family.children.girl;      // (girl has no other sisiters)