Currently the XmlListModel is the only element available for reading XML data. This is useful for creating a model from XML data, but does not work well for nested XML list data (since this requires using nested XmlListModels) and also doesn't fit the task if the application only requires some piece of data from the XML, and not a complete model.

What would be useful is a XmlObject element or something similar that is like XmlListModel, but isn't a model. Instead, it creates a single object with properties created from the XML data.

E.g.

XmlObject {
    id: xmlObj
    xml: xmlDataString
}

var name = xmlObj.root.slideshow[0].name

Can also set query on it like XmlListModel:

XmlObject {
    id: xmlObj
    xml: xmlDataString
    query: "root/slideshow[0]"
}

var name = xmlObj.name

Could be used in combination with XmlListModel to read more complex models e.g.

XmlListModel {
      id: model
      source: "feed.xml"
      query: "/root/slideshow"
      
      XmlRole {
          name: "slides"; query: "slide"
          objectDefinition: XmlObject {
              xml: rawXml
              XmlProperty { query: "blah"; name: "propertyName"}
          }
      }
}