XML to Rust Converter

About this tool

Paste an XML sample and get Rust type definitions you can use immediately. Emits serde-derived structs. Fields are renamed to snake_case with `#[serde(rename)]` preserving the original key.

When you would use it

• Deserialising with serde_json
• Bootstrapping models from a real XML response instead of writing them by hand
• Keeping types in step with an API that has changed

Worked example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<user id="4815">
  <name>Ada Lovelace</name>
  <active>true</active>
  <score>91.5</score>
  <roles>
    <role>admin</role>
    <role>editor</role>
  </roles>
</user>

use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize)]
pub struct Root {
    pub user: User,
}
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize)]
pub struct User {
    #[serde(rename = "@id")]
    pub id: i64,
    pub name: String,
    pub active: bool,
    pub score: f64,
    pub roles: Roles,
}
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize)]
pub struct Roles {
    pub role: Vec<String>,
}

Things worth knowing

• Every object in an array is merged when inferring the shape, so a field missing from one item is marked optional rather than assumed to always be present.
• Identical nested shapes are de-duplicated into a single type instead of generating near-duplicates.
• Array element types are named from the singular of the field name, so posts produces a Post type.
• XML carries no type information, so numeric and boolean-looking text is inferred. Check the result where a value could legitimately be a string.