Builder

Constructor for default builder. To set any values, use the property setters. The primary constructor is internal as it is not stable as new configuration options are added.

Rather than using type wrappers use the tag name to distinguish polymorphic types

Determine whether defaults need to be encoded

Process attribute name reading strictly according to the XML standard, or a name handling that is a bit more lenient

Parse boolean data according to the requirements of XML, rather than the (very lenient) toBoolean function from the Kotlin standard library.

Enable some stricter behaviour

When a single-value elemement is repeated in the content, will this throw an exception or only retain the final value

When set, use a type discriminator property

Function called when an unknown child is encountered. By default it throws an exception, but this function can use its own recovery behaviour

Verify that element children are in the order required by order annotations (and fail if not correct). Note that attribute order in XML is arbitrary and not meaningful.