How to convert JSON to XML or XML to JSON?

Yes. Using the JsonConvert class which contains helper methods for this precise purpose:

// To convert an XML node contained in string xml into a JSON string   
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml(xml);
string jsonText = JsonConvert.SerializeXmlNode(doc);

// To convert JSON text contained in string json into an XML node
XmlDocument doc = JsonConvert.DeserializeXmlNode(json);

Documentation here: Converting between JSON and XML with Json.NET

I'm not sure there is point in such conversion (yes, many do it, but mostly to force a square peg through round hole) -- there is structural impedance mismatch, and conversion is lossy. So I would recommend against such format-to-format transformations.

But if you do it, first convert from json to object, then from object to xml (and vice versa for reverse direction). Doing direct transformation leads to ugly output, loss of information, or possibly both.

Thanks for David Brown's answer. In my case of JSON.Net 3.5, the convert methods are under the JsonConvert static class:

XmlNode myXmlNode = JsonConvert.DeserializeXmlNode(myJsonString); // is node not note
// or .DeserilizeXmlNode(myJsonString, "root"); // if myJsonString does not have a root
string jsonString = JsonConvert.SerializeXmlNode(myXmlNode);

For convert JSON string to XML try this:

    public string JsonToXML(string json)
    {
        XDocument xmlDoc = new XDocument(new XDeclaration("1.0", "utf-8", ""));
        XElement root = new XElement("Root");
        root.Name = "Result";

        var dataTable = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<DataTable>(json);
        root.Add(
                 from row in dataTable.AsEnumerable()
                 select new XElement("Record",
                                     from column in dataTable.Columns.Cast<DataColumn>()
                                     select new XElement(column.ColumnName, row[column])
                                    )
               );


        xmlDoc.Add(root);
        return xmlDoc.ToString();
    }

For convert XML to JSON try this:

    public string XmlToJson(string xml)
    {
       XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
       doc.LoadXml(xml);

       string jsonText = JsonConvert.SerializeXmlNode(doc);
       return jsonText;
     }

Cinchoo ETL - an open source library available to do the conversion of Xml to JSON easily with few lines of code

Xml -> JSON:

using (var p = new ChoXmlReader("sample.xml"))
{
    using (var w = new ChoJSONWriter("sample.json"))
    {
        w.Write(p);
    }
}

JSON -> Xml:

using (var p = new ChoJsonReader("sample.json"))
{
    using (var w = new ChoXmlWriter("sample.xml"))
    {
        w.Write(p);
    }
}

Sample fiddle: https://dotnetfiddle.net/enUJKu

Checkout CodeProject articles for some additional help.

Disclaimer: I'm the author of this library.

I have used the below methods to convert the JSON to XML

List <Item> items;
public void LoadJsonAndReadToXML() {
  using(StreamReader r = new StreamReader(@ "E:\Json\overiddenhotelranks.json")) {
    string json = r.ReadToEnd();
    items = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject <List<Item>> (json);
    ReadToXML();
  }
}

And

public void ReadToXML() {
  try {
    var xEle = new XElement("Items",
      from item in items select new XElement("Item",
        new XElement("mhid", item.mhid),
        new XElement("hotelName", item.hotelName),
        new XElement("destination", item.destination),
        new XElement("destinationID", item.destinationID),
        new XElement("rank", item.rank),
        new XElement("toDisplayOnFod", item.toDisplayOnFod),
        new XElement("comment", item.comment),
        new XElement("Destinationcode", item.Destinationcode),
        new XElement("LoadDate", item.LoadDate)
      ));

    xEle.Save("E:\\employees.xml");
    Console.WriteLine("Converted to XML");
  } catch (Exception ex) {
    Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
  }
  Console.ReadLine();
}

I have used the class named Item to represent the elements

public class Item {
  public int mhid { get; set; }
  public string hotelName { get; set; }
  public string destination { get; set; }
  public int destinationID { get; set; }
  public int rank { get; set; }
  public int toDisplayOnFod { get; set; }
  public string comment { get; set; }
  public string Destinationcode { get; set; }
  public string LoadDate { get; set; }
}

It works....

Here's an example of how to convert JSON to XML using .NET built-in libraries (instead of 3rd party libraries like Newtonsoft).

using System.Text.Json;
using System.Text.Json.Nodes;
using System.Xml.Linq;

XDocument xmlDoc = jsonToXml(jsonObj);

private XDocument jsonToXml(JsonObject obj)
{
  var xmlDoc = new XDocument();
  var root = new XElement("Root");
  xmlDoc.Add(root);

  foreach (var prop in obj)
  {
    var xElement = new XElement(prop.Key);
    xElement.Value = prop.Value.ToString();
    root.Add(xElement);
  }
  return xmlDoc;
}