Golang encoding/xml

go's builtin library for parsing xml.

WARNING:

wip

Tutorials

tutorialedge

https://tutorialedge.net/golang/parsing-xml-with-golang/

Basics

To parse xml within go:

• you define MarshallText/UnmarshallText methods on an object
• declare a variable with the types you'd like to use
• xml.Unmarshall(your_type) will use type info to serialize/deserialize objects

Struct Tags

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type User struct {
    Name  `xml:"Name"`       // <User><Name>value</Name></User>
    Color `xml:"color,attr"` // <User color="value"></User>
    Skip  `xml:"-"`          // <User></User>
}

Known issues:

• xml namespaces don't work as expected: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/11496
• It doesn't appear that go's internal xml library supports schema validation