Am I imagining things, or are there currently no libraries for XML parsing / serialization in kotlin-native?

No XML libraries

Thanks, huh, that's sobering. I guess I have to take the interface route and pass a platform specific serializer/parser into the common code instead.

you might also be able to plug in to kotlinx.serializaton, so that you don't have to define the interface

Thanks guys!

So after more than 20 years I may be developing another XML parser

Not sure of availability, but will try to help out some on native side if useful

There are many small C XML parsers, like https://dev.yorhel.nl/yxml and it shall be easy to create pure .def klib using it

I think until stdlib has common I/O library building XML or JSON support is going to be an ugly process.

There is json support now

Incase you you haven't seen this, https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization/issues/188 I expect once Kotlin Serialization goes stable, we'll see a first party XML extension