[elktea]

Serde is great. I wish it did XML as well but that's a trickier proposition

[rascul]

Maybe this would work

https://crates.io/crates/serde-xml-rs

[Kinrany]

Perhaps XML serializers could be derived from schema. That way you always know which tag name, attribute or child node is meaningful.

[bruuuh]

I have found the quick-xml crate to work well.