tafia/quick-xml

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1556 stars · 290 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

quick-xml is a high-performance XML pull reader and writer library for Rust, featuring near zero-copy parsing with Cow types and buffer reuse. It supports multiple encodings, namespace resolution, entity unescaping, and optional serde-based serialization/deserialization.

Use cases

• parse large xml files fast in rust
• read xml config files with low memory allocation
• write xml documents programmatically
• deserialize xml into rust structs with serde
• parse html-like markup
• stream-process xml events without loading whole document

When to choose

• you need maximum xml parsing performance in Rust
• you want zero-copy or low-allocation parsing
• you need serde integration for xml
• you need encoding or namespace support

When to avoid

• you need DOM-style tree access rather than pull events
• you need full XML schema validation
• you are not working in Rust

Facets

library · maturity stable

parser serialization web-scraping parsers web-development developer-tools rust cross-platform xml pull-parser zero-copy serde-support html-parsing

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