---
title: CFXMLTree
framework: Core Foundation
role: symbol
role_heading: Type Alias
path: corefoundation/cfxmltree
---

# CFXMLTree

## Declaration

```swift
typealias CFXMLTree = CFTree
```

## Overview

Overview A CFXMLTree object is simply a CFTree object whose context data is known to be a CFXMLNode object. CFXMLTree is derived from CFTree—you can pass CFXMLTree objects in all the CFTree functions. As such, a CFXMLTree object can be used to represent an entire XML document; the CFTree object provides the tree structure of the document, while the CFXMLNode objects identify and describe the nodes of the tree. An XML document can be parsed to a CFXMLTree object, and a CFXMLTree object can generate the data for the equivalent XML document. This opaque type is expected to be used in conjunction with CFXMLParser and CFXMLNode objects.

## Topics

### CFXMLTree Miscellaneous Functions

- [CFXMLCreateStringByEscapingEntities(_:_:_:)](corefoundation/cfxmlcreatestringbyescapingentities(_:_:_:).md)
- [CFXMLCreateStringByUnescapingEntities(_:_:_:)](corefoundation/cfxmlcreatestringbyunescapingentities(_:_:_:).md)

### Constants

- [Error Dictionary Keys](corefoundation/error-dictionary-keys.md)

## See Also

### Related Documentation

- [XML Programming Topics for Core Foundation](apple-archive/documentation/CoreFoundation/Conceptual/CFXML.md)

### Opaque Types

- [CFAllocator](corefoundation/cfallocator.md)
- [CFArray](corefoundation/cfarray.md)
- [CFAttributedString](corefoundation/cfattributedstring.md)
- [CFBag](corefoundation/cfbag.md)
- [CFBinaryHeap](corefoundation/cfbinaryheap.md)
- [CFBitVector](corefoundation/cfbitvector.md)
- [CFBoolean](corefoundation/cfboolean.md)
- [CFBundle](corefoundation/cfbundle.md)
- [CFCalendar](corefoundation/cfcalendar.md)
- [CFCharacterSet](corefoundation/cfcharacterset.md)
- [CFData](corefoundation/cfdata.md)
- [CFDate](corefoundation/cfdate.md)
- [CFDateFormatter](corefoundation/cfdateformatter.md)
- [CFDictionary](corefoundation/cfdictionary.md)
- [CFError](corefoundation/cferror.md)