Xmltodict for rust?

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Is there a library similar to xmltodict for rust?
The gist of it is that it converts an xml document into a dictionary so that it "feels" like working with JSON. Additionally it supports roundtripping that dictionary back into the original XML document.

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I like to use lib.rs to search for crates:

quick-xml looks like the most popular XML parser implementation. They do have quite extensive documentation for parsing XML into Rust data types using serde. I don't have any experience with it.

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You can parse xml into serde_json::Value, which is similar to python values.

fn main() {
    let input = r#"<a b="1"><c/>d</a>"#;
    let value: serde_json::Value = serde_xml_rs::from_str(input).unwrap();
    dbg!(value);
}

Output is

[src/main.rs:6:5] value = Object {
    "$value": String("d"),
    "b": String("1"),
    "c": Object {},
}
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serde_xml_rs looks like exactly what I need but unfortunately it seems like an unmaintained project.

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It has an unresponsive maintainer unfortunately, but the library itself is okay.

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