⚙️ DevOps & Platform Eng

DataWeave's XML-to-JSON Traps: Attributes, Arrays, Fixed

Automatic XML-to-JSON in DataWeave drops attributes and mangles arrays. One engineer's fix shipped to production, saving 7,500 daily responses.

DevTools Feed Apr 03, 2026 4 min read

⚡ Key Takeaways

Default DataWeave XML-to-JSON drops attributes and mishandles arrays—use explicit selectors to fix.
Test with production-like data; edge cases kill naive transforms.
This pattern scales to 7,500+ daily responses; standardize for resilient integrations.

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#API integrations #DataWeave #MuleSoft #XML to JSON

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