Text

Primitive types

A field of a primitive type is bound to the local element text.

Model

class Company(BaseXmlModel):
    description: constr(strip_whitespace=True)

Document

XML

<Company>
    Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
</Company>

JSON

{
    "description": "Space Exploration Technologies Corp."
}

Note: the empty element text is deserialized as None not as an empty string:

Model

class Company(BaseXmlModel):
    description: Optional[str] = None

Document

XML

<Company></Company>

JSON

{
    "description": null
}

To have an empty string instead add "" as a default value:

class Company(BaseXmlModel):
    description: str = ""