MessagePack vs XMLCoder

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MessagePack		XMLCoder
	Project
1	Mentions	3
194	Stars	775
-0.5%	Growth	1.5%
0.0	Activity	5.3
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	3 months ago
Swift	Language	Swift
MIT License	License	MIT License

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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

MessagePack

Posts with mentions or reviews of MessagePack. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Convert a raw byte array to a Struct
1 project | /r/swift | 31 Jan 2021

So yeah, I agree that a standardized data format could help. JSON seems wasteful, especially when working with less powerful chips. Maybe msgpack could be useful for this, which can be used directly with Codable using this library.

XMLCoder

Posts with mentions or reviews of XMLCoder. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

XML parsing in Swift
1 project | /r/iOSProgramming | 21 Sep 2022
Are there any XML parsers (through SPM ideally) that are worth using instead of Apple's XMLParser framework?
1 project | /r/swift | 17 Apr 2021

I've used https://github.com/MaxDesiatov/XMLCoder in a few apps, works nicely!
How to parse XML correctly?
1 project | /r/SwiftUI | 14 Apr 2021

I would recommend this one because it works with Codable. Though using the built in parser will save you one more external dependency.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing MessagePack and XMLCoder you can also consider the following projects:

SwiftyXML - The most swifty way to deal with XML data in swift 5.

AEXML - Swift minion for simple and lightweight XML parsing

XMLMapper - A simple way to map XML to Objects written in Swift

SWXMLHash - Simple XML parsing in Swift

Fuzi - A fast & lightweight XML & HTML parser in Swift with XPath & CSS support

CheatyXML - CheatyXML is a Swift framework designed to manage XML easily

AlamofireXmlToObjects - Fetch a XML feed and parse it into objects

XMLParser - A lightweight XMLParser for assembling and parsing XML values written for iOS 8+ in Swift 2.

SNDocx - Extracts the text from the Docx file

XMLText - Generate styled SwiftUI Text from strings with XML tags.

ZMarkupParser - ZMarkupParser is a pure-Swift library that helps you convert HTML strings into NSAttributedString with customized styles and tags.

DTCollectionViewManager - Protocol-oriented UICollectionView management, powered by generics and associated types.