Does Alamofire provide any built-in functions for parsing HTML or XML?

Alamofire is a popular HTTP networking library for Swift, used on iOS and macOS platforms. It simplifies a number of networking tasks such as making HTTP requests, uploading and downloading files, and handling JSON data. However, Alamofire does not directly provide built-in functions for parsing HTML or XML. It focuses on network request handling rather than content parsing.

For parsing HTML or XML, you would typically use a separate library that is designed for that purpose. In the Swift ecosystem, you might use libraries like SwiftSoup for HTML parsing or SWXMLHash, XMLCoder for XML parsing.

Here is an example of how you might combine Alamofire with SwiftSoup to parse HTML:

import Alamofire
import SwiftSoup

Alamofire.request("https://example.com").responseString { response in
    switch response.result {
    case .success(let html):
        do {
            let doc: Document = try SwiftSoup.parse(html)
            let links: Elements = try doc.select("a")
            for link in links.array() {
                let linkHref: String = try link.attr("href")
                let linkText: String = try link.text()
                print("\(linkText) -> \(linkHref)")
            }
        } catch Exception.Error(let type, let message) {
            print("Message: \(message)")
        } catch {
            print("error")
        }
    case .failure(let error):
        print(error)
    }
}

In this example, we use Alamofire to make a network request to https://example.com. When the request is successful, we parse the resulting HTML content with SwiftSoup and extract all the anchor tags (links) along with their href attributes and text content.

For XML parsing with Alamofire, you might use a library like SWXMLHash:

import Alamofire
import SWXMLHash

Alamofire.request("https://example.com/data.xml").response { response in
    if let data = response.data {
        let xml = SWXMLHash.parse(data)
        for element in xml["root"]["child"].all {
            print(element.element?.text)
        }
    } else {
        print("Data was not retrieved from request")
    }
}

In this example, we use Alamofire to make a request to retrieve XML data. We then parse the XML using SWXMLHash and iterate over the elements found under the "root" and "child" XML tags.

Remember that you'll need to add Alamofire and the parsing library (SwiftSoup, SWXMLHash, etc.) to your project. If you're using CocoaPods, you could add them to your Podfile or if you're using Swift Package Manager, add them to your Package.swift manifest file.