---
title: description
framework: foundation
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: foundation/xmlnode/description
---

# description

## Declaration

```swift
var description: String { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion Used for debugging. May give more information than XMLString.

## See Also

### Emitting Node Content

- [xmlString](foundation/xmlnode/xmlstring.md)
- [xmlString(options:)](foundation/xmlnode/xmlstring(options:).md)
- [canonicalXMLStringPreservingComments(_:)](foundation/xmlnode/canonicalxmlstringpreservingcomments(_:).md)