XML to Swift Converter

Generate Swift structs from XML samples when your Apple-platform app still consumes XML feeds or SOAP-style payloads and needs readable transport models.

How to use

  1. Paste a representative XML document that matches the response, feed, or document shape your iOS or macOS app actually parses.
  2. Review the generated Swift structs, nested models, and collection fields inferred from repeated XML nodes.
  3. Copy the output into your Apple-platform project and refine CodingKeys, access control, or parser glue where production code needs it.

Benefits

  • Produces readable Swift transport models for XML-backed APIs without hand-authoring nested structs.
  • Keeps XML-derived payload shape explicit for iOS and macOS networking layers.
  • Helps teams move legacy XML responses into typed app models before custom parser refinements.

Best use cases

  • iOS apps consuming XML feeds, document-style APIs, or SOAP-adjacent integrations.
  • macOS utilities that want typed XML model scaffolding before persistence or UI binding.
  • Teams standardizing XML parsing around explicit transport structs instead of dictionary-style objects.

XML Swift tips

  • Review optional properties and naming before wiring generated structs into production decoders.
  • Add parser-specific key mapping or custom decoding only after confirming the transport shape matches real XML samples.
  • Keep transport structs separate from view models when the app-level representation diverges from the raw XML feed.

Implementation tips

  • Review naming and coding key strategy for snake_case payloads.
  • Use optional properties for fields that are not always returned.
  • Store generated models near network layer abstractions.

Sample XML

<user>
  <id>101</id>
  <name>Ada Lovelace</name>
  <active>true</active>
  <roles>
    <role>admin</role>
    <role>editor</role>
  </roles>
  <profile>
    <email>ada@example.com</email>
    <score>9.8</score>
  </profile>
</user>

Sample output

struct UserModel: Codable {
    let id: Int
    let name: String
    let active: Bool
    let roles: [String]
}

FAQ

Why use XML to Swift instead of JSON to Swift?

Choose XML to Swift when the source contract is XML and your generated models need to reflect repeated nodes and nested document structure instead of JSON arrays and objects.

Can this route model nested XML elements?

Yes. Nested XML elements become child Swift structs, and repeated nodes are inferred into array-like fields based on the parsed XML sample.