SWXMLHash | Simple XML parsing in Swift | Parser library

Okay. I found a solution for my own situation. I posted it here: Swift 3 NSURLSession/NSURLConnection HTTP load failed when connecting to a site with authentication

Note: this is a security concern so please don't do this

Since combined XML will be not a valid XML (even if it was, doesn't matter), treat them as a raw String:

You could make your Item conform to Encodable

Since you don't mind using a third party library, you can try XMLMapper (similar to ObjectMapper but for XML)

Use the following model classes:

This is the starter project of WenderCast from Push Notifications Tutorial: Getting Started, Because the starter project is built error, I correct it. Finally can run. The correct solution is below.
1. change the SWXMLHash.swift file from drmohundro/SWXMLHash, for the problem
.Element Ambiguous use of Element SWXMLHash swift
2. correct the code in file PodcastFeedLoader.swift in line 48 to
let feedItems = items.all.flatMap { (indexer: XMLIndexer) -> PodcastItem? in ,
the origin code is
let feedItems = items.flatMap { (indexer: XMLIndexer) -> PodcastItem? in

The correct the project in github: https://github.com/zgpeace/WenderCast-Starter

You should be able to parse this output directly using PropertyListSerialization . Check out the documentation.

I'd recommend maybe taking a look at using IOKit instead. It can be a bit of a daunting API to get a handle on, but it provides a ton of power. I've used it for USB device information and connect/disconnect notifications in the past and it's worked wonderfully. I think you'll find it much more robust than parsing the output of a command line utility.

The problem is that the escaped inner xml already is wrong in a sense that it contains & characters (in unicode), and maybe < and others.

First, you should not unescape unicode entities like & or < at all, because the XmlParser handles this for you.

Then, you should unescape unicode entities like & etc. into xml entities like & (rather than to &), which then the xml parser will handle (see above)

Okay well I didn't know how to fix this but I discovered that Alamofire can be used to do what I needed. This is a local project for inventory management so I wasn't concerned about the security of bypassing the certificates. My code is here:

To use your CodingKey in the serialization process, you probably want to use the new Codable protocol, but Foundation does not support XML.

Shawn Moore wrote an interesting library that adds the missing, from the Foundation, XMLDecoder and XMLEncoder classes. (Codable support for XML) Although it does not have a readme file, this answer can help you about how to use it.

Another solution is to try XMLMapper. This library uses the same idea as ObjectMapper but for XML.

For example you can serialize the following model struct: