Is there any way to read an event and not consume it?

[ImJeremyHe]

just like peek() in the iterators

[Mingun]

Reader does not buffer events that it reads, so you cannot peek them, but you can create your own wrapper around the reader that would store the last readed event. That approach is used in the Deserializer:

quick-xml/src/de/mod.rs

Lines 473 to 486 in 2eecf00

	#[cfg(not(feature = "overlapped-lists"))]
	fn peek(&mut self) -> Result<&DeEvent<'de>, DeError> {
	if self.peek.is_none() {
	self.peek = Some(self.reader.next()?);
	}
	match self.peek.as_ref() {
	Some(v) => Ok(v),
	// SAFETY: a `None` variant for `self.peek` would have been replaced
	// by a `Some` variant in the code above.
	// TODO: Can be replaced with `unsafe { std::hint::unreachable_unchecked() }`
	// if unsafe code will be allowed
	None => unreachable!(),
	}
	}

We could introduce a PeekableReader that will have that logic. PR is welcome.