Which works if you either expect a dictionary with a predefined set of fields (w...

		Felk on Oct 29, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: XML is almost always misused Which works if you either expect a dictionary with a predefined set of fields (which isn't really a dictionary then), or parse your xml in a way that handles arbitrary tags. For a generic dictionary the shown approach is still the way to go, if you really want to use XML for that.

XML parsers generally allow arbitrary tags.