Convert XML to Json Array when only one object

Read this documentation about Serialize Xml Node

You can force JSON Array this way

var xml = @"<Items xmlns:json='http://james.newtonking.com/projects/json' >             <Item json:Array='true'>                <Name>name</Name>                 <Detail>detail</Detail>                </Item>            </Items>";

DEMO

In case it helps anyone, further to meda's reply.Here's how you make this work with XElement rather than xmlTextWriter and XDocument

XNamespace ns = "http://james.newtonking.com/projects/json";var items = new XElement("items",new XAttribute(XNamespace.Xmlns+"json",ns));   items.Add(new XElement("item",new XAttribute(ns+"Array",true),                        new XElement("name", "name"),                        new XElement("Detail", "detail")));

then to convert it

 XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();            doc.LoadXml(items.ToString());            var converted JsonConvert.SerializeXmlNode(doc);

Cinchoo ETL - an open source library available to convert such xml into expected json format

string xml = @"<Items>        <Item>            <Name>name</Name>            <Detail>detail</Detail>            </Item>    </Items>";StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();using (var p = ChoXmlReader.LoadText(xml).WithXPath("/")){    using (var w = new ChoJSONWriter(sb)        .Configure(c => c.SupportMultipleContent = true)        )        w.Write(p);}Console.WriteLine(sb.ToString());

Output:

{ "Items": [  {    "Name": "name",    "Detail": "detail"  } ]}

Disclaimer: I'm the author of this library.