xmltodict(完全公开:是我写的)可以帮助您按照这个“标准”将XML转换为字典+列表+字符串结构。它是基于expat的，所以速度非常快，而且不需要在内存中加载整个XML树。

一旦你有了这个数据结构，你可以将它序列化为JSON:

import xmltodict, json

o = xmltodict.parse('<e> <a>text</a> <a>text</a> </e>')
json.dumps(o) # '{"e": {"a": ["text", "text"]}}'

当我在python中处理XML时，我几乎总是使用lxml包。我怀疑大多数人都使用lxml。您可以使用xmltodict，但您将不得不再次解析XML。

用lxml将XML转换为json:

用lxml解析XML文档 将lxml转换为dict 将列表转换为json

我在我的项目中使用下面的类。使用toJson方法。

from lxml import etree 
import json


class Element:
    '''
    Wrapper on the etree.Element class.  Extends functionality to output element
    as a dictionary.
    '''

    def __init__(self, element):
        '''
        :param: element a normal etree.Element instance
        '''
        self.element = element

    def toDict(self):
        '''
        Returns the element as a dictionary.  This includes all child elements.
        '''
        rval = {
            self.element.tag: {
                'attributes': dict(self.element.items()),
            },
        }
        for child in self.element:
            rval[self.element.tag].update(Element(child).toDict())
        return rval


class XmlDocument:
    '''
    Wraps lxml to provide:
        - cleaner access to some common lxml.etree functions
        - converter from XML to dict
        - converter from XML to json
    '''
    def __init__(self, xml = '<empty/>', filename=None):
        '''
        There are two ways to initialize the XmlDocument contents:
            - String
            - File

        You don't have to initialize the XmlDocument during instantiation
        though.  You can do it later with the 'set' method.  If you choose to
        initialize later XmlDocument will be initialized with "<empty/>".

        :param: xml Set this argument if you want to parse from a string.
        :param: filename Set this argument if you want to parse from a file.
        '''
        self.set(xml, filename) 

    def set(self, xml=None, filename=None):
        '''
        Use this to set or reset the contents of the XmlDocument.

        :param: xml Set this argument if you want to parse from a string.
        :param: filename Set this argument if you want to parse from a file.
        '''
        if filename is not None:
            self.tree = etree.parse(filename)
            self.root = self.tree.getroot()
        else:
            self.root = etree.fromstring(xml)
            self.tree = etree.ElementTree(self.root)


    def dump(self):
        etree.dump(self.root)

    def getXml(self):
        '''
        return document as a string
        '''
        return etree.tostring(self.root)

    def xpath(self, xpath):
        '''
        Return elements that match the given xpath.

        :param: xpath
        '''
        return self.tree.xpath(xpath);

    def nodes(self):
        '''
        Return all elements
        '''
        return self.root.iter('*')

    def toDict(self):
        '''
        Convert to a python dictionary
        '''
        return Element(self.root).toDict()

    def toJson(self, indent=None):
        '''
        Convert to JSON
        '''
        return json.dumps(self.toDict(), indent=indent)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    xml='''<system>
    <product>
        <demod>
            <frequency value='2.215' units='MHz'>
                <blah value='1'/>
            </frequency>
        </demod>
    </product>
</system>
'''
    doc = XmlDocument(xml)
    print doc.toJson(indent=4)

内置main的输出是:

{
    "system": {
        "attributes": {}, 
        "product": {
            "attributes": {}, 
            "demod": {
                "attributes": {}, 
                "frequency": {
                    "attributes": {
                        "units": "MHz", 
                        "value": "2.215"
                    }, 
                    "blah": {
                        "attributes": {
                            "value": "1"
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

它是xml的一个转换:

<system>
    <product>
        <demod>
            <frequency value='2.215' units='MHz'>
                <blah value='1'/>
            </frequency>
        </demod>
    </product>
</system>

我建议不要直接转换。将XML转换为对象，然后从对象转换为JSON。

在我看来，这为XML和JSON如何对应提供了一个更清晰的定义。

这需要时间来调整，你甚至可以编写工具来帮助你生成一些内容，但它大致如下所示:

class Channel:
  def __init__(self)
    self.items = []
    self.title = ""

  def from_xml( self, xml_node ):
    self.title = xml_node.xpath("title/text()")[0]
    for x in xml_node.xpath("item"):
      item = Item()
      item.from_xml( x )
      self.items.append( item )

  def to_json( self ):
    retval = {}
    retval['title'] = title
    retval['items'] = []
    for x in items:
      retval.append( x.to_json() )
    return retval

class Item:
  def __init__(self):
    ...

  def from_xml( self, xml_node ):
    ...

  def to_json( self ):
    ...

这是我为此编写的代码。没有对内容进行解析，只是简单的转换。

from xml.dom import minidom
import simplejson as json
def parse_element(element):
    dict_data = dict()
    if element.nodeType == element.TEXT_NODE:
        dict_data['data'] = element.data
    if element.nodeType not in [element.TEXT_NODE, element.DOCUMENT_NODE, 
                                element.DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE]:
        for item in element.attributes.items():
            dict_data[item[0]] = item[1]
    if element.nodeType not in [element.TEXT_NODE, element.DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE]:
        for child in element.childNodes:
            child_name, child_dict = parse_element(child)
            if child_name in dict_data:
                try:
                    dict_data[child_name].append(child_dict)
                except AttributeError:
                    dict_data[child_name] = [dict_data[child_name], child_dict]
            else:
                dict_data[child_name] = child_dict 
    return element.nodeName, dict_data

if __name__ == '__main__':
    dom = minidom.parse('data.xml')
    f = open('data.json', 'w')
    f.write(json.dumps(parse_element(dom), sort_keys=True, indent=4))
    f.close()

我发现对于简单的XML片段，使用正则表达式会省事。例如:

# <user><name>Happy Man</name>...</user>
import re
names = re.findall(r'<name>(\w+)<\/name>', xml_string)
# do some thing to names

正如@Dan所说，要通过XML解析来做到这一点，并没有万能的解决方案，因为数据是不同的。我的建议是使用lxml。虽然没有完成json, lxml。物化的效果很好:

>>> from lxml import objectify
>>> root = objectify.fromstring("""
... <root xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
...   <a attr1="foo" attr2="bar">1</a>
...   <a>1.2</a>
...   <b>1</b>
...   <b>true</b>
...   <c>what?</c>
...   <d xsi:nil="true"/>
... </root>
... """)

>>> print(str(root))
root = None [ObjectifiedElement]
    a = 1 [IntElement]
      * attr1 = 'foo'
      * attr2 = 'bar'
    a = 1.2 [FloatElement]
    b = 1 [IntElement]
    b = True [BoolElement]
    c = 'what?' [StringElement]
    d = None [NoneElement]
      * xsi:nil = 'true'

如果有些时候你只得到响应代码而不是所有的数据，那么像json解析这样的错误将会存在，所以你需要将它转换为文本

import xmltodict

data = requests.get(url)
xpars = xmltodict.parse(data.text)
json = json.dumps(xpars)
print json