yq/pkg/yqlib/doc/usage/headers/xml.md
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# XML
Encode and decode to and from XML. Whitespace is not conserved for round trips - but the order of the fields are.
As yaml does not have the concept of attributes, xml attributes are converted to regular fields with a prefix to prevent clobbering. This defaults to "+", use the `--xml-attribute-prefix` to change.
Consecutive xml nodes with the same name are assumed to be arrays.
All values in XML are assumed to be strings - but you can use `from_yaml` to parse them into their correct types:
```
yq e -p=xml '.myNumberField |= from_yaml' my.xml
```
XML nodes that have attributes then plain content, e.g:
```xml
<cat name="tiger">meow</cat>
```
The content of the node will be set as a field in the map with the key "+content". Use the `--xml-content-name` flag to change this.