XMLity  

XMLity is a (de)serialization library for XML, inspired by Serde and improves upon XML (de)serialization libraries such as yaserde and quick-xml by providing a more flexible API that is more powerful, utilising primairly a trial and error approach to parsing XML. This can inherently be a bit slower than other libraries, but it allows for more complex XML structures to be parsed.

Get started

To get started, we recommend you check out the XMLity book and the documentation.

Example

1. Add XMLity and XMLity-compatible (de)serializer library. In this example we use xmlity_quick_xml.

[dependencies]

xmlity = { version = "0.0.0", features = ["derive"] }

xmlity_quick_xml = "0.0.0"

2. Write defintions and use:

extern crate xmlity;
extern crate xmlity_derive;
extern crate xmlity_quick_xml;

use xmlity::{Serialize, Deserialize};;
use xmlity_derive::{Serialize, Deserialize};

#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]
#[xelement(name = "name")]
struct Name(String);

#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]
#[xelement(name = "age")]
struct Age(u8);

#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]
#[xelement(name = "person")]
struct Person {
    name: Name,
    age: Age,
}

let person = Person {
    name: Name("John".to_string()),
    age: Age(42),
};

let xml = xmlity_quick_xml::to_string(&person).expect("Failed to serialize");
assert_eq!(xml, r#"<person><name>John</name><age>42</age></person>"#);

let person: Person = xmlity_quick_xml::from_str(&xml).expect("Failed to deserialize");
assert_eq!(person.name.0, "John");
assert_eq!(person.age.0, 42);

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