function convert(input) {

    var rootNode = $(input).contents()[0].parentNode;

    var childrenText = traverse(input, 0);

    var att = AttributesText(rootNode, false);

    var delimeter = (childrenText != '' && att != '' ? ', ' : '');

    return beautify('{"' + rootNode.nodeName.toLowerCase() + '": ' + childrenText + delimeter + att + '}');
    }

    function traverse(tree, depth) {

    var result = '';

    var nodes = $(tree).contents().filter(function (index) {
    // exclude all carriage returns
    return (this.nodeType != 3 || $(this).text().charCodeAt(0) != 10);
    })

    var i = 0;

    var wrapWithBraces = false;
    var wrapWithSquareBrackets = false;

    var lastNodeName = '';

    nodes.each(function (nodeIndex) {

    if (this.nodeType == 3) { // text node

    var value = $(this).text();

    if (value.charCodeAt(0) == 10)
    {
    //result += '\r';

    }
    else
    {
    // node value
    result += '"' + $(this).text() + '"';
    }


    } else {

    // node name (could be parent node)


    // if not last, add a comma

    if (i > 0)
    result += ',';

    // at least one key so needs braces
    wrapWithBraces = true;

    if (lastNodeName == this.nodeName) {

    // more than one match - so wrap with square brackets (array)
    wrapWithSquareBrackets = true;
    } else {
    result += '"' + this.nodeName.toLowerCase() + '": ';
    lastNodeName = this.nodeName;
    }


    result = result + AttributesText(this, true);


    // if it contains a tag - square brackets
    // if it contains more than 1 tag, array, square brackets


    result += traverse(this, depth++);

    }



    i++;

    });


    if (wrapWithSquareBrackets) {
    // put square brackets after label
    var insertPoint = result.indexOf(':') + 2;
    result = result.substr(0, insertPoint) + '[' + result.substr(insertPoint) + ']';
    }

    if (wrapWithBraces) {
    result = '{' + result + '}';
    }

    return result;
    }

    function AttributesText(elm, includeBraces) {

    var result = '';

    if (elm.attributes.length > 0) {

    if (includeBraces)
    result += '{';

    $.each(elm.attributes, function (i, attrib) {
    var name = attrib.name;
    var value = attrib.value;

    if (i > 0) {
    result += ',';
    }
    result += '"' + name + '": "' + value + '"';

    });

    if (includeBraces)
    result += '}'

    }

    return result;

    }








function replaceAll(find, replace, str) {
    return str.replace(new RegExp(find, 'g'), replace);
}

function beautify(str) {


    var result = '';

    var length = str.length;

    var i = 0;

    var braceCountLeft = 0;
    var braceCountRight = 0;

    var withinQuotes = false;

    while (i < length) {

        var c = str[i];

        if (c == '"' && (i == 0 || c[i - 1] != '\\')) {
            // non-escaped quotes
            withinQuotes = !withinQuotes;
        }

        if (!withinQuotes && (c == '}' || c == '{' || c == ',')) {

            console.log('Start####' + result);

            // look back and remove carriage returns and whitespace that are already there

            var resultIndex = result.length - 1;
            while (resultIndex >= 0 && (result[resultIndex] == ' ' || result[resultIndex] == '\r' || result[resultIndex] == '\n' || result[resultIndex] == '\t')) {

                resultIndex = resultIndex - 1;
                result = result.substr(0, resultIndex + 1);

                console.log('char ' + result[resultIndex] + '-----' + result + 'zzz ' + result.length + ' ' + resultIndex);

            }


            if (c == '{') {
                braceCountLeft++;
                result += c + '\r' + GetTabs(braceCountLeft - braceCountRight);
            } else if (c == '}') {
                braceCountRight++;
                // precede with carriage return
                result += '\r' + GetTabs(braceCountLeft - braceCountRight) + c;
            } else if (c == ',') {
                result += c + '\r' + GetTabs(braceCountLeft - braceCountRight);
            }

            var nextChar = '';

            // advance through whitespace and remove carriage returns that are already there
            while (i < length && (str[i + 1] == ' ' || str[i + 1] == '\r' || str[i + 1] == '\n' || str[i + 1] == '\t')) {
                i++;
            }

        } else {

            result += str[i];

        }


        i++;

    }

    return result;

}

function GetTabs(count) {

    var result = '';

    for (var i = 0; i < count; i++) {
        result += '    ';
    }

    return result;

}