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.
Generate Swift structs from XML samples when your Apple-platform app still consumes XML feeds or SOAP-style payloads and needs readable transport models.
<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>
struct UserModel: Codable {
let id: Int
let name: String
let active: Bool
let roles: [String]
}
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.
Yes. Nested XML elements become child Swift structs, and repeated nodes are inferred into array-like fields based on the parsed XML sample.