Serializing Data into XML and JSON

JSON format

To serialize data from a Gantt chart into a JSON object, use the serialize method as in:

var json = gantt.serialize();

As a result, the json variable from the code above will look something like this:

{
 "data": [{"id":"1", "text":"Project #1", "start_date":"01-04-2013 00:00", ...}, ...], 
 "links":[{"id":"1", "source":"1", "target":"2", "type": "1"}, ...]
}

XML format

To serialize data from a Gantt chart into an XML string, use the serialize method as in:

var xml = gantt.serialize("xml");

As a result, the xml variable from the code above will look something like this:

"<data>
    <task id='11' parent=''   start_date='01-04-2013 00:00' duration='11' 
     open='true' progress='0.6' end_date='12-04-2013 00:00'>
        <![CDATA[Project #1]]>
    </task>
    <task id='12' parent='11' start_date='03-04-2013 00:00' duration='5' 
     open='true' progress='1' end_date='08-04-2013 00:00'>
        <![CDATA[Task #1]]>
    </task>
</data>"

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