diff --git a/async-opcua-types/src/json.rs b/async-opcua-types/src/json.rs
index 43323c96..189fa514 100644
--- a/async-opcua-types/src/json.rs
+++ b/async-opcua-types/src/json.rs
@@ -303,3 +303,35 @@ pub fn write_raw_value(
     reader.transfer_to(r)?;
     Ok(())
 }
+
+/// Utility method to encode an OPC-UA encodable type to a JSON string as UTF-8.
+///
+/// `ctx` can be obtained by constructing a [ContextOwned](crate::ContextOwned),
+/// and calling [context](crate::ContextOwned::context) on it.
+pub fn to_bytes<T: JsonEncodable>(value: &T, ctx: &Context<'_>) -> EncodingResult<Vec<u8>> {
+    let mut res = Vec::new();
+    let mut stream = Cursor::new(&mut res);
+    let mut writer = JsonStreamWriter::new(&mut stream as &mut dyn Write);
+    value.encode(&mut writer, ctx)?;
+    writer.finish_document()?;
+    Ok(res)
+}
+
+/// Utility method to encode an OPC-UA encodable type to a JSON string.
+///
+/// `ctx` can be obtained by constructing a [ContextOwned](crate::ContextOwned),
+/// and calling [context](crate::ContextOwned::context) on it.
+pub fn to_string<T: JsonEncodable>(value: &T, ctx: &Context<'_>) -> EncodingResult<String> {
+    let bytes = to_bytes(value, ctx)?;
+    String::from_utf8(bytes).map_err(Error::decoding)
+}
+
+/// Utility method to decode an OPC-UA decodable type from a JSON string as UTF-8.
+///
+/// `ctx` can be obtained by constructing a [ContextOwned](crate::ContextOwned),
+/// and calling [context](crate::ContextOwned::context) on it.
+pub fn from_bytes<T: JsonDecodable>(data: &[u8], ctx: &Context<'_>) -> EncodingResult<T> {
+    let mut cursor = Cursor::new(data);
+    let mut reader = JsonStreamReader::new(&mut cursor as &mut dyn Read);
+    T::decode(&mut reader, ctx)
+}
diff --git a/async-opcua-types/src/tests/json.rs b/async-opcua-types/src/tests/json.rs
index 17cfca24..616492f7 100644
--- a/async-opcua-types/src/tests/json.rs
+++ b/async-opcua-types/src/tests/json.rs
@@ -30,33 +30,17 @@ use crate::{
 
 use crate::{ContextOwned, EncodingResult, ExtensionObject};
 
-fn ctx() -> ContextOwned {
-    ContextOwned::default()
-}
-
 fn from_value<T: JsonDecodable>(v: Value) -> EncodingResult<T> {
     let v = serde_json::to_string(&v).unwrap();
-    let ctx = ctx();
-    let stream = &mut v.as_bytes() as &mut dyn Read;
-    let mut reader = JsonStreamReader::new(stream);
-    T::decode(&mut reader, &ctx.context())
+    from_str(&v)
 }
 
 fn from_str<T: JsonDecodable>(v: &str) -> EncodingResult<T> {
-    let ctx = ctx();
-    let stream = &mut v.as_bytes() as &mut dyn Read;
-    let mut reader = JsonStreamReader::new(stream);
-    T::decode(&mut reader, &ctx.context())
+    crate::json::from_bytes(v.as_bytes(), &ContextOwned::default().context())
 }
 
 fn to_string<T: JsonEncodable>(v: &T) -> EncodingResult<String> {
-    let mut target = Vec::new();
-    let mut stream = Cursor::new(&mut target);
-    let mut writer = JsonStreamWriter::new(&mut stream as &mut dyn Write);
-    let ctx = ctx();
-    v.encode(&mut writer, &ctx.context())?;
-    writer.finish_document().unwrap();
-    Ok(String::from_utf8(target).unwrap())
+    crate::json::to_string(v, &ContextOwned::default().context())
 }
 
 fn to_value<T: JsonEncodable>(v: &T) -> EncodingResult<Value> {
diff --git a/async-opcua-types/src/tests/xml.rs b/async-opcua-types/src/tests/xml.rs
index 91a9b00c..10588929 100644
--- a/async-opcua-types/src/tests/xml.rs
+++ b/async-opcua-types/src/tests/xml.rs
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
-use std::io::{Cursor, Read, Write};
 use std::str::FromStr;
 
 use opcua_macros::{XmlDecodable, XmlEncodable, XmlType};
-use opcua_xml::XmlStreamReader;
 
 use crate::xml::{XmlDecodable, XmlEncodable};
 use crate::{
@@ -29,16 +27,11 @@ fn context<'a>(mapper: &'a NodeSetNamespaceMapper<'a>, owned: &'a ContextOwned)
 }
 
 fn from_xml_str_ctx<T: XmlDecodable>(data: &str, ctx: &Context<'_>) -> EncodingResult<T> {
-    let mut cursor = Cursor::new(data.as_bytes());
-    let mut reader = XmlStreamReader::new(&mut cursor as &mut dyn Read);
-    T::decode(&mut reader, ctx)
+    crate::xml::from_bytes(data.as_bytes(), ctx)
 }
 
 fn encode_xml_ctx<T: XmlEncodable>(data: &T, ctx: &Context<'_>) -> EncodingResult<String> {
-    let mut buf = Vec::new();
-    let mut writer = opcua_xml::XmlStreamWriter::new(&mut buf as &mut dyn Write);
-    data.encode(&mut writer, ctx)?;
-    Ok(String::from_utf8(buf).unwrap())
+    crate::xml::to_string(data, ctx)
 }
 
 fn xml_round_trip_ctx<T: XmlDecodable + XmlEncodable + PartialEq + std::fmt::Debug>(
diff --git a/async-opcua-types/src/xml/encoding.rs b/async-opcua-types/src/xml/encoding.rs
index 818d8cc7..2edea9d6 100644
--- a/async-opcua-types/src/xml/encoding.rs
+++ b/async-opcua-types/src/xml/encoding.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 use std::{
-    io::{Read, Write},
+    io::{Cursor, Read, Write},
     str::{from_utf8, Utf8Error},
 };
 
@@ -226,3 +226,34 @@ impl XmlReadExt for XmlStreamReader<&mut dyn Read> {
         Ok(res)
     }
 }
+
+/// Utility method to encode an OPC-UA encodable type to an XML string as UTF-8.
+///
+/// `ctx` can be obtained by constructing a [ContextOwned](crate::ContextOwned),
+/// and calling [context](crate::ContextOwned::context) on it.
+pub fn to_bytes<T: XmlEncodable>(value: &T, ctx: &Context<'_>) -> EncodingResult<Vec<u8>> {
+    let mut res = Vec::new();
+    let mut stream = Cursor::new(&mut res);
+    let mut writer = XmlStreamWriter::new(&mut stream as &mut dyn Write);
+    value.encode(&mut writer, ctx)?;
+    Ok(res)
+}
+
+/// Utility method to encode an OPC-UA encodable type to an XML string.
+///
+/// `ctx` can be obtained by constructing a [ContextOwned](crate::ContextOwned),
+/// and calling [context](crate::ContextOwned::context) on it.
+pub fn to_string<T: XmlEncodable>(value: &T, ctx: &Context<'_>) -> EncodingResult<String> {
+    let bytes = to_bytes(value, ctx)?;
+    String::from_utf8(bytes).map_err(Error::decoding)
+}
+
+/// Utility method to decode an OPC-UA decodable type from an XML string as UTF-8.
+///
+/// `ctx` can be obtained by constructing a [ContextOwned](crate::ContextOwned),
+/// and calling [context](crate::ContextOwned::context) on it.
+pub fn from_bytes<T: XmlDecodable>(data: &[u8], ctx: &Context<'_>) -> EncodingResult<T> {
+    let mut cursor = Cursor::new(data);
+    let mut reader = XmlStreamReader::new(&mut cursor as &mut dyn Read);
+    T::decode(&mut reader, ctx)
+}
diff --git a/async-opcua-types/src/xml/mod.rs b/async-opcua-types/src/xml/mod.rs
index 5ba35c09..83d3957f 100644
--- a/async-opcua-types/src/xml/mod.rs
+++ b/async-opcua-types/src/xml/mod.rs
@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ mod builtins;
 mod encoding;
 
 pub use crate::{Context, EncodingResult, Error};
-pub use encoding::{XmlDecodable, XmlEncodable, XmlReadExt, XmlType, XmlWriteExt};
+pub use encoding::{
+    from_bytes, to_bytes, to_string, XmlDecodable, XmlEncodable, XmlReadExt, XmlType, XmlWriteExt,
+};
 pub use opcua_xml::{XmlStreamReader, XmlStreamWriter};
 
 use std::{