Excellent. I don't know why that menu items was disabled, but it works now. 
Also seems to work OK for the XML files I have. Thank you!


On Friday, November 4, 2022 at 10:47:47 AM UTC-7 jj wrote:

> Check out that the "Apply Text Filter" checkbox is activated in the 
> Settings > Menus & Sortcuts > Text list:
>
> [image: Screenshot 2022-11-04 at 18.28.00.png]
> Check out that the shell script has execute permission.
>
> [image: Screenshot 2022-11-04 at 18.33.56.png]
>
> Warning: 
> The proposed solution "as is" only works for very simple XML.
> XML and JSON formats are not homeomorphic, many things can fail : 
> entities, cdata, element repetitions, attributes, etc.
> However,  combined with 'jq' there seems to be more powerful 
> customizations.
> For example, see: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/658021
>
> For a Text Factory to batch a folder refer to the BBEdit manual and the 
> "Run Unix Filter" command.
>
> HTH,
>
> Jean Jourdain
> On Friday, November 4, 2022 at 5:28:00 PM UTC+1 severdia wrote:
>
>> I don't see a menu item called "Apply Text Filter". There's "Apply Text 
>> Transform", but when I open that I don't see the script in dialog that 
>> opens with that menu. Can you elaborate? Ideally I could process a folder 
>> of XML files and convert then to JSON. I'm using BBedit 14.6.1.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> On Friday, November 4, 2022 at 1:14:32 AM UTC-7 jj wrote:
>>
>>> You could try yq <https://kislyuk.github.io/yq/>.
>>>
>>>  Install it from Terminal with homebrew <https://brew.sh>:
>>>
>>>     brew install python-yq
>>>     
>>> Create this simple BBEdit text filter in *~/Library/Application\ 
>>> Support/BBEdit/Text\ Filters/xml2json.sh*
>>>     
>>>     #!/bin/sh
>>>     xq '.'
>>>
>>> and call the filter from menu Text > Apply Text Filter > xml2json.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>>
>>> Jean Jourdain
>>>
>>> On Thursday, November 3, 2022 at 1:28:42 AM UTC+1 severdia wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is there an easy way to so a simple XML to JSON conversion in BBedit? 
>>>> Oxygen and some other tools seem to do this, but short of creating a 
>>>> TextFactory or similar, I don't see an easy way to do it. 
>>>>
>>>>

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