Golang: analyze the value and attributes of an XML element for groups

Question

I have an XML structure:

<RootLevel status="new" timestamp="1383259529" xmlns="http://someplace.com"> <Item active="1" status="new" itemid="451254"> <SubItem active="1" recent="false" usertext="No idea" id="78421"> <SubItemField active="1" ready="no" type="1">1.4</SubItemField> <SubItemField active="1" ready="yes" type="2">4.5</SubItemField> </SubItem> </Item> </RootLevel> 

I don’t know how I can collect both values ​​and attributes for SubItemField elements, my code looks something like this:

 type RootLEvel struct { XMLName xml.Name `xml:"RootLevel"` ... Item []Item } type Item struct { ... SubItem []SubItem } type SubItem struct { ... SubItemField []SubItemField } type SubItemField struct { Active bool `xml:"active,attr"` Ready string `xml:"ready,attr"` } 

I need both attributes and values, but the only way to get the values ​​that I know is to simply use

 SubItemField []float32 

instead of my custom type. I am using xml.Unmarshal btw.

Any idea?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I figured out how to do this, I just need to add a new property in my structure that corresponds to xml:",chardata" , so that it looks like this:

 type SubItemField struct { Value float32 `xml:",chardata"` Active bool `xml:"active,attr"` Ready string `xml:"ready,attr"` } 

I hope this can help someone, because there is no documentation or examples about this.