# XML in GStreamer (deprecated)

GStreamer used to provide functions to save pipeline definitions into XML format and later restore them again from XML.

This never really worked properly for all but the most simple use cases though, and is also pretty much impossible to make work correctly in a useful way due to the dynamic nature of almost all non-trivial GStreamer pipelines. Consequently, this API has been deprecated and will be removed at some point. Don't use it.