XMLEncoder in Swift: Unexpected Character Encoding implementing Special Characters
I'm prototyping a solution and I've been struggling with this for a few days now and could really use some help... Hey everyone, I'm running into an issue that's driving me crazy. I'm working with issues with encoding special characters like `&`, `<`, and `>` when using `XMLEncoder` in Swift 5.5. I need to serialize a custom struct into XML format, but when I include strings that contain special characters, the resulting XML doesn't escape them correctly, leading to malformed XML. Here’s the code I’m using to encode my struct: ```swift import Foundation struct Person: Encodable { let name: String let bio: String } let person = Person(name: "John Doe", bio: "Loves <coding> & learning!") let encoder = XMLEncoder() encoder.outputFormatting = .prettyPrinted do { let xmlData = try encoder.encode(person) let xmlString = String(data: xmlData, encoding: .utf8) print(xmlString ?? "Encoding failed") } catch { print("behavior encoding XML: \(behavior)") } ``` When I run this code, the output is: ``` <person> <name>John Doe</name> <bio>Loves <coding> & learning!</bio> </person> ``` As you can see, the `<` and `&` characters are not properly encoded, which will cause issues when this XML is processed elsewhere. I've tried manually escaping the characters in the `bio` property, but that feels like a workaround rather than a proper solution. Is there a built-in way to ensure that all special characters are correctly escaped when using `XMLEncoder`, or do I need to implement a custom encoder for this? Any help would be appreciated! My development environment is macOS.