diff --git a/docs/changelog/next_release/269.feature.rst b/docs/changelog/next_release/269.feature.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..53bb70363
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/changelog/next_release/269.feature.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Add ``XML.parse_column`` method for handling XML data within Spark. This method allows for direct parsing of XML strings into structured Spark DataFrame columns.
diff --git a/docs/connection/db_connection/kafka/format_handling.rst b/docs/connection/db_connection/kafka/format_handling.rst
index bc1993a20..5f2d00864 100644
--- a/docs/connection/db_connection/kafka/format_handling.rst
+++ b/docs/connection/db_connection/kafka/format_handling.rst
@@ -242,3 +242,56 @@ To serialize structured data into Avro format and write it back to a Kafka topic
     # |  1|[02 02 02 08 76 6... (binary data)] |
     # |  2|[02 04 02 08 76 6... (binary data)] |
     # +---+------------------------------------+
+
+XML Format Handling
+-------------------
+
+Handling XML data in Kafka involves parsing string representations of XML into structured Spark DataFrame format.
+
+``DBReader``
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+To process XML formatted data from Kafka, use the :obj:`XML.parse_column <onetl.file.format.xml.XML.parse_column>` method. This method allows you to convert a column containing XML strings directly into a structured Spark DataFrame using a specified schema.
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
+    from pyspark.sql.types import StructType, StructField, StringType, IntegerType
+
+    from onetl.db import DBReader
+    from onetl.file.format import XML
+    from onetl.connection import Kafka
+
+    spark = SparkSession.builder.appName("KafkaXMLExample").getOrCreate()
+
+    kafka = Kafka(...)
+    xml = XML(row_tag="person")
+
+    reader = DBReader(
+        connection=kafka,
+        topic="topic_name",
+    )
+    df = reader.run()
+
+    df.show()
+    # +----+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------+---------+------+-----------------------+-------------+
+    # |key |value                                                                                       |topic     |partition|offset|timestamp              |timestampType|
+    # +----+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------+---------+------+-----------------------+-------------+
+    # |[31]|"<person><name>Alice</name><age>20</age></person>"                                          |topicXML  |0        |0     |2024-04-24 13:02:25.911|0            |
+    # |[32]|"<person><name>Bob</name><age>25</age></person>"                                            |topicXML  |0        |1     |2024-04-24 13:02:25.922|0            |
+    # +----+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------+---------+------+-----------------------+-------------+
+
+    xml_schema = StructType(
+        [
+            StructField("name", StringType(), nullable=True),
+            StructField("age", IntegerType(), nullable=True),
+        ]
+    )
+    parsed_xml_df = df.select(xml.parse_column("value", xml_schema))
+    parsed_xml_df.show()
+    # +-----------+
+    # |value      |
+    # +-----------+
+    # |{Alice, 20}|
+    # |{Bob, 25}  |
+    # +-----------+
diff --git a/docs/file_df/file_formats/xml.rst b/docs/file_df/file_formats/xml.rst
index 187aa89a4..cfe560ccc 100644
--- a/docs/file_df/file_formats/xml.rst
+++ b/docs/file_df/file_formats/xml.rst
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ XML
 .. currentmodule:: onetl.file.format.xml
 
 .. autoclass:: XML
-    :members: get_packages
+    :members: get_packages, parse_column
diff --git a/onetl/file/format/xml.py b/onetl/file/format/xml.py
index 83c02329b..f1dc337b3 100644
--- a/onetl/file/format/xml.py
+++ b/onetl/file/format/xml.py
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@
 from onetl.hooks import slot, support_hooks
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
-    from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
+    from pyspark.sql import Column, SparkSession
+    from pyspark.sql.types import StructType
 
 
 PROHIBITED_OPTIONS = frozenset(
@@ -226,3 +227,113 @@ def check_if_supported(self, spark: SparkSession) -> None:
             if log.isEnabledFor(logging.DEBUG):
                 log.debug("Missing Java class", exc_info=e, stack_info=True)
             raise ValueError(msg) from e
+
+    def parse_column(self, column: str | Column, schema: StructType) -> Column:
+        """
+        Parses an XML string column into a structured Spark SQL column using the ``from_xml`` function
+        provided by the `Databricks Spark XML library <https://github.com/databricks/spark-xml#pyspark-notes>`_
+        based on the provided schema.
+
+        .. note::
+
+            This method assumes that the ``spark-xml`` package is installed: :obj:`XML.get_packages <onetl.file.format.xml.XML.get_packages>`.
+
+        .. note::
+
+            This method parses each DataFrame row individually. Therefore, for a specific column, each row must contain exactly one occurrence of the ``rowTag`` specified. If your XML data includes a root tag that encapsulates multiple row tags, you can adjust the schema to use an ``ArrayType`` to keep all child elements under the single root.
+
+            .. code-block:: xml
+
+                <books>
+                    <book><title>Book One</title><author>Author A</author></book>
+                    <book><title>Book Two</title><author>Author B</author></book>
+                </books>
+
+            And the corresponding schema in Spark using an ``ArrayType``:
+
+            .. code-block:: python
+
+                from pyspark.sql.types import StructType, StructField, ArrayType, StringType
+
+                schema = StructType(
+                    [
+                        StructField(
+                            "book",
+                            ArrayType(
+                                StructType(
+                                    [
+                                        StructField("title", StringType(), True),
+                                        StructField("author", StringType(), True),
+                                    ]
+                                )
+                            ),
+                            True,
+                        )
+                    ]
+                )
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        column : str | Column
+            The name of the column or the Column object containing XML strings to parse.
+
+        Returns
+        -------
+        Column
+            A new Column object with data parsed from XML string to the specified structured format.
+
+        Examples
+        --------
+        .. code-block:: python
+
+            from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
+            from pyspark.sql.types import StructType, StructField, StringType, IntegerType
+
+            from onetl.file.format import XML
+
+            spark = SparkSession.builder.appName("XMLParsingExample").getOrCreate()
+            schema = StructType(
+                [
+                    StructField("author", StringType(), nullable=True),
+                    StructField("title", StringType(), nullable=True),
+                    StructField("genre", StringType(), nullable=True),
+                    StructField("price", IntegerType(), nullable=True),
+                ]
+            )
+            xml_processor = XML(row_tag="book")
+
+            data = [
+                (
+                    "<book><author>Austen, Jane</author><title>Pride and Prejudice</title><genre>romance</genre><price>19</price></book>",
+                )
+            ]
+            df = spark.createDataFrame(data, ["xml_string"])
+
+            parsed_df = df.select(xml_processor.parse_column("xml_string", schema=schema))
+            parsed_df.show()
+
+        """
+        from pyspark.sql import Column, SparkSession  # noqa: WPS442
+
+        spark = SparkSession._instantiatedSession  # noqa: WPS437
+        self.check_if_supported(spark)
+
+        from pyspark.sql.column import _to_java_column  # noqa: WPS450
+        from pyspark.sql.functions import col
+
+        if isinstance(column, Column):
+            column_name, column = column._jc.toString(), column.cast("string")  # noqa: WPS437
+        else:
+            column_name, column = column, col(column).cast("string")
+
+        java_column = _to_java_column(column)
+        java_schema = spark._jsparkSession.parseDataType(schema.json())  # noqa: WPS437
+        scala_options = spark._jvm.org.apache.spark.api.python.PythonUtils.toScalaMap(  # noqa: WPS219, WPS437
+            self.dict(),
+        )
+        jc = spark._jvm.com.databricks.spark.xml.functions.from_xml(  # noqa: WPS219, WPS437
+            java_column,
+            java_schema,
+            scala_options,
+        )
+        return Column(jc).alias(column_name)
diff --git a/tests/tests_integration/test_file_format_integration/test_xml_integration.py b/tests/tests_integration/test_file_format_integration/test_xml_integration.py
index 705d7ff84..5ebaaf1ab 100644
--- a/tests/tests_integration/test_file_format_integration/test_xml_integration.py
+++ b/tests/tests_integration/test_file_format_integration/test_xml_integration.py
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 Do not test all the possible options and combinations, we are not testing Spark here.
 """
 
+import datetime
+
 import pytest
 
 from onetl._util.spark import get_spark_version
@@ -11,9 +13,12 @@
 from onetl.file.format import XML
 
 try:
+    from pyspark.sql import Row
+    from pyspark.sql.functions import col
+
     from tests.util.assert_df import assert_equal_df
 except ImportError:
-    pytest.skip("Missing pandas", allow_module_level=True)
+    pytest.skip("Missing pandas or pyspark", allow_module_level=True)
 
 pytestmark = [pytest.mark.local_fs, pytest.mark.file_df_connection, pytest.mark.connection, pytest.mark.xml]
 
@@ -166,3 +171,45 @@ def test_xml_reader_with_attributes(
     assert read_df.count()
     assert read_df.schema == expected_xml_attributes_df.schema
     assert_equal_df(read_df, expected_xml_attributes_df, order_by="id")
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "xml_input, expected_row",
+    [
+        (
+            """<item>
+                    <id>1</id>
+                    <str_value>Alice</str_value>
+                    <int_value>123</int_value>
+                    <date_value>2021-01-01</date_value>
+                    <datetime_value>2021-01-01T07:01:01Z</datetime_value>
+                    <float_value>1.23</float_value>
+                </item>""",
+            Row(
+                xml_string=Row(
+                    id=1,
+                    str_value="Alice",
+                    int_value=123,
+                    date_value=datetime.date(2021, 1, 1),
+                    datetime_value=datetime.datetime(2021, 1, 1, 7, 1, 1),
+                    float_value=1.23,
+                ),
+            ),
+        ),
+    ],
+    ids=["basic-case"],
+)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("column_type", [str, col])
+def test_xml_parse_column(spark, xml_input: str, expected_row: Row, column_type, file_df_schema):
+    from onetl.file.format import XML
+
+    spark_version = get_spark_version(spark)
+    if spark_version.major < 3:
+        pytest.skip("XML files are supported on Spark 3.x only")
+
+    xml = XML(row_tag="item")
+    df = spark.createDataFrame([(xml_input,)], ["xml_string"])
+    parsed_df = df.select(xml.parse_column(column_type("xml_string"), schema=file_df_schema))
+    result_row = parsed_df.first()
+
+    assert result_row == expected_row