Add information about the xmltodict tool (home-assistant#12156)

* Add xml2dict tool information * hyperlink * Update source/_posts/2020-02-26-release-106.markdown Co-Authored-By: Franck Nijhof <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Franck Nijhof <[email protected]>
Thrilleratplay · Feb 22, 2020 · 9e3fb59 · 9e3fb59
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 - **UniFi** - Changing tracking settings will no longer disable entities but will remove them completely from the state machine and entity registry. The SSID filter will now mark all wireless clients as `not_home` if they are connected to SSIDs that are not a part of the filter. - ([@Kane610] - [#31762]) ([unifi docs])
 
-- **Rest** - Many devices continue to use XML for RESTful APIs. This change implements converting XML output to JSON via `xmltojson` so it can work with the existing rest sensor component. As the attributes that usually need to be scraped are deeper in the document, support for passing in a template to find the JSON attributes has been added. JSON APIs that do not have their attributes at the top level can also benefit from this change. - ([@bdraco] - [#31809]) ([rest docs])
+- **Rest** - Many devices continue to use XML for RESTful APIs. This change implements converting XML output to JSON via `xmltojson` so it can work with the existing rest sensor component. 
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+`xmltojson` tags may be confusing; if you are not familiar with the conversion, please use the [xmltodict](https://xmltodict-debugger.glitch.me/) tool created by [@balloob] to identify the tags to be used to parse the resulting JSON.
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+As the attributes that usually need to be scraped are deeper in the document, support for passing in a template to find the JSON attributes has been added. JSON APIs that do not have their attributes at the top level can also benefit from this change.
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+- ([@bdraco] - [#31809]) ([rest docs])
 
   Example YAML configuration: