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The {{Code|direct}} conversion format allows a lossless conversion from JSON to XML and back. The transformation is based on the following rules:
* The resulting document has a {{Code|<json>}} root node.
* Object pairs are represented via elements. The name of a pair is encoded, as described in the [[Conversion Module#Keys|Conversion Module]], and used as element name.
* Array entries are also represented via elements, with {{Code|_}} as element name.
The {{Code|attributes}} format is lossless, too. The transformation based on the following rules:
* The resulting document has a {{Code|<json>}} root node. * Object pairs are represented via {{Code|<pair>}} elements. The name of a pair is stored in a {{Code|name}} attribute.* Array entries are represented via {{Code|<item>}} elements.
* Object and array values are stored in text nodes.
* The types of values are represented via {{Code|type}} attributes:
