XML to Json serialization is not mapping the data properly

I have some list months in the row tags in a XML format. But while mapping the data to Json it is not mapping properly. Please check below for the reference.

import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml.XmlMapper;

public class XML2Json {

	public static void main(String[] args) throws JsonProcessingException, IOException {

		String xml = "<root><months><row>Apr 2013</row><row>May 2013</row><row>Jun 2013</row><row>Jul 2013</row><row>Aug 2013</row></months></root>";

		XmlMapper xmlMapper = new XmlMapper();
		JsonNode node = xmlMapper.readTree(xml.getBytes());

		ObjectMapper jsonMapper = new ObjectMapper();
		String json = jsonMapper.writeValueAsString(node);

		System.out.println(json);
	}
}

The output for the above code is:

  "months": {
     "row": "Aug 2013"
   }

[Adiqq]

I’d like to add that

Code works exactly as expected; there will not be “fixes”.

Does not solve existing problem. We have problem here that might be hard to solve due to technical problems, but take perspective of end-user using this library. I just want to convert XML to JSON, with some constraints, I don’t want creating any POJO, because in most cases I will not know structure of incoming XML. In this case there might be some configurable guess, how it should be mapped. Additionaly I can provide XSD file for well-defined mapping for specific case. I also want to keep root tag from XML in result JSON. I might care for edge cases later, once I can solve my initial problem.

Now, what solution do I have right now, without studying intrinsics of Jackson and this XML extension for it?

[Adiqq]

I prepared small Kotlin library to overcome problems mentioned in this issue. It offers naive implementation to overcome problem with missing root tag and it maps multiple child elements with the same name into a array.