SwiftyXML VS AEXML

Compare SwiftyXML vs AEXML and see what are their differences.

SwiftyXML

The most swifty way to deal with XML data in swift 5. (by chenyunguiMilook)

AEXML

Swift minion for simple and lightweight XML parsing (by tadija)
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SwiftyXML AEXML
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0.0 5.3
over 3 years ago 2 months ago
Swift Swift
MIT License MIT License
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SwiftyXML

Posts with mentions or reviews of SwiftyXML. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-14.

AEXML

Posts with mentions or reviews of AEXML. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-09.
  • Lessons learned from migrating a native iOS app to Flutter
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jan 2022
    In the article, he mentions the need for a DOM parser dependency for his app, as Swift “does not have one.”

    > AEXML was needed to parse some XHTML files as the native iOS SDK does not provide a DOM parser.

    I have used Foundation XML parsers[0] for many years, but they are general-purpose; not specifically modeled on DOM or HTML, which probably limits usefulness on some Web content.

    That said, if he has control of the content (don’t know the app, so I am not sure), then there should be no reason that they couldn’t render it in XHTML, so the Foundation parser could be used reliably. In the article, he mentions that the content is XHTML. I have to assume that AEXML[1] is easier to use than the built-in parser. It uses Foundation parsing (it actually seems to be a lightweight wrapper for the built-in parser(, under the hood (and seems to be a well-written dependency).

    So, it could be posited that he would only need one dependency for his native version, if he wanted to handle the XHTML parsing, himself.

    [0] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/archive...

    [1] https://github.com/tadija/AEXML

What are some alternatives?

When comparing SwiftyXML and AEXML you can also consider the following projects:

SWXMLHash - Simple XML parsing in Swift

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

AlamofireXmlToObjects - Fetch a XML feed and parse it into objects

XMLCoder - Easy XML parsing using Codable protocols in Swift

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

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

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