You're right, you can't learn everything at once, so you need to gradually understand and memorise those codes. It's a whole science that you need to know. You don't have to help on the forum, you can just direct them or figure it out for yourself. Here's a tutorial on how to convert xml to json in python http://devhubby.com/thread/how-to-convert-xml-to-json-in-python
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