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Rust high performance xml reader and writer

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In the last 30 days, tafia/quick-xml merged 8 of 14 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. 1 beginner-friendly issue is open now.

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Dominant language
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License
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Last GitHub push
Oct 23, 2026
Latest indexed
Oct 24, 2026
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  • 0.42.0 is about 30% slower than 0.41.0 on documents with many small events
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    encoding optimization

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    tafia/quick-xml#1039 · 1 comment ·

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  • Expanded empty elements allocate a String per element
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    optimization question

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

    tafia/quick-xml#1036 ·

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  • Inconsistent handling of tags starting with digits (Parser accepts invalid XML)
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 53/100

    tafia/quick-xml#1035 · 1 comment ·

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  • Reader should be capable of transparent EOL normalization
    Open
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    tafia/quick-xml#1003 ·

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  • Detect loops in entity resolution
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    enhancement help wanted

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    tafia/quick-xml#945 ·

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  • Case-insensitive XML declaration detection per XML spec section 2.6
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 34/100

    tafia/quick-xml#927 · 2 comments · 2 reactions ·

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  • Whitespaces around character entities
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    help wanted serde

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    tafia/quick-xml#900 · 3 comments · 2 reactions ·

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  • Lingering serde whitespace bug
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    help wanted serde

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 46/100

    tafia/quick-xml#896 · 6 comments ·

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  • A pipeline system
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    tafia/quick-xml#890 · 2 comments ·

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  • Add ability to serialize Serde types to quick_xml::writer::Writer
    Open
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    enhancement serde

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

    tafia/quick-xml#886 · 3 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • Working with typetag for xs:choice / variant types?
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    question serde

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    tafia/quick-xml#880 · 1 comment ·

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  • Consider whether a DOM wrapper would be a useful addition
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    tafia/quick-xml#851 · 2 comments ·

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  • well-formedness
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    enhancement help wanted

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    tafia/quick-xml#848 · 7 comments ·

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  • Easy way to implement a LineCounter
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    tafia/quick-xml#837 · 4 comments ·

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  • Cryptic error UnexpectedStart if serde structs do not match XML
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    serde

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    tafia/quick-xml#834 · 1 reaction ·

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  • Deserialization of enum variant which recursively refers to itself failed with stackoverflow
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug help wanted serde

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    tafia/quick-xml#819 ·

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  • Document how to deserialize and serialize attributes using serde
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    documentation serde

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 30/100

    tafia/quick-xml#804 · 7 comments ·

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  • Document how to deserialize and serialize XML with namespaces using serde
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    documentation namespaces serde

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 44/100

    tafia/quick-xml#803 · 2 comments ·

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  • Expose a way to iterate over `DeEvent`s
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    tafia/quick-xml#799 · 1 comment ·

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  • Support for embedded raw binary with serde API
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    enhancement help wanted serde

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    tafia/quick-xml#792 · 2 comments ·

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  • How to deserializes into generic struct that includes element name
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    serde

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    tafia/quick-xml#778 · 2 comments ·

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  • Problem deserializing a struct that can be serialized
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    arrays bug help wanted serde

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 38/100

    tafia/quick-xml#752 · 2 comments ·

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  • Add conformance tests
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    enhancement help wanted

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

    tafia/quick-xml#749 · 1 comment ·

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  • Understanding empty tag behavior
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    question

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 34/100

    tafia/quick-xml#741 · 5 comments ·

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  • How to escape/de-descape with Serde
    Open
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    enhancement help wanted serde

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 28/100

    tafia/quick-xml#720 · 2 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • Change the representation of Enums
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    help wanted question serde

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    tafia/quick-xml#717 · 12 comments ·

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  • `quick_xml::de::from_reader` requires a `BufRead` instead of just an `std::io::Read`
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    help wanted

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    tafia/quick-xml#716 · 2 comments ·

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  • Question: name as attribute with serde
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    question serde

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    tafia/quick-xml#715 · 1 comment ·

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  • Help with mixed sequence with attributes?
    Open
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    serde

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

    tafia/quick-xml#700 · 1 comment ·

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  • Add ability to get spans of deserialized values
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    enhancement help wanted serde

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    tafia/quick-xml#695 · 4 comments ·

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  • Is it as expect that Option attribute serialize into empty string instead of non-attribute.
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    documentation serde

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 38/100

    tafia/quick-xml#692 · 2 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • Examples should cover XML writing more thoroughly
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 38/100

    tafia/quick-xml#686 · 1 comment ·

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  • Unable to serialize a struct that deserialization works for
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    bug serde

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    tafia/quick-xml#654 · 4 comments ·

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  • Invalid XML declarations allowed
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    enhancement help wanted

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    tafia/quick-xml#641 · 5 comments ·

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  • Would using thiserror crate be acceptable for the error handling?
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    tafia/quick-xml#638 · 2 comments ·

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  • Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO) results
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    documentation help wanted

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 28/100

    tafia/quick-xml#632 · 1 comment ·

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  • Roadmap for v1.0?
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    tafia/quick-xml#627 · 3 comments ·

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  • Error Location similar to Serde JSON or TOML Spanned?
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    enhancement help wanted serde

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    tafia/quick-xml#625 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • EndEventMismatch error when asynchronously reading to end in loop
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    bug help wanted

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    tafia/quick-xml#624 · 5 comments ·

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  • Add ability to deserialize serde types from `Reader`
    Open
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    enhancement help wanted serde

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    tafia/quick-xml#611 · 6 comments · 5 reactions ·

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  • Ignore undeclared element when a $value field is present
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    enhancement help wanted serde

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    tafia/quick-xml#596 · 3 comments ·

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  • How to support multiple xs:choice ?
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    question serde

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    tafia/quick-xml#588 · 1 comment ·

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  • Create attribute without using @ for compatibility with json serialization
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    question serde

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    tafia/quick-xml#582 · 7 comments ·

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  • Feature request: enabling grammar typing for sequences via deserialize
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    enhancement serde

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    tafia/quick-xml#578 · 4 comments ·

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  • Recognize and process some special XML attributes
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    enhancement help wanted

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    tafia/quick-xml#464 · 9 comments ·

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  • There should be a configuration option for skipping non-meaningful text events in-between XML tags
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    tafia/quick-xml#461 · 2 reactions ·

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  • how best to skip comments?
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    enhancement help wanted

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    tafia/quick-xml#460 · 3 comments ·

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  • deserialize_struct loses the main element
    Open
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    serde

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    tafia/quick-xml#448 · 3 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • Is there any way to read an event and not consume it?
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    enhancement help wanted

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    tafia/quick-xml#414 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • Deserializing tag with attribute values into Map
    Open
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    help wanted serde

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    tafia/quick-xml#383 · 3 comments · 2 reactions ·

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