XML to JSON producing undesired results

I’m using the
org.json
library, as seen below, to convert from XML to JSON

  <dependency>
      <groupId>org.json</groupId>
      <artifactId>json</artifactId>
      <version>20160212</version>
  </dependency>

A simple test case shows the problem I am having, see below: –

I have the following XML

<record>
  <name>A108B</name>
</record>

which in turn, produces

{"record": { "id": "A108B" }}

Great! The problem occurs if
id
is

1111

Using the following code

XML.toJSONObject(xml...)

I get

{"record": { "name": 1111 }}

I’d actually prefer to keep the values as all strings, i.e. user identifiers. I don’t want the output changing depending on whether the identifier happens to not have a character in it.

Is there any way I can force org.json to do this? I can probably fork the code and make a change for myself but I would expect that this is a problem someone else has come across and has a solution for.

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