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Writing struct definitions that match XML file is tedious.
There are tools that can generate that definition based on sample XML file.
A downside of such approach is that if sample XML doesn't have all the fields, they won't be generated.
XML To Go online tool allows to do it in a web browser. Paste XML sample on the left, get Go struct definition on the right.
Zek is a Go program that reads XML from a file or stdin and prints Go struct definition to stdout.
You can use chidley to automatically generate struct definitions from sample XML file.
Install the tool with go get -u github.com/gnewton/chidley.
chidley sample.xml will print Go struct definitions deduced from sample.xml to standard out.
Run chidley to list all cmd-line options.
Options that I find useful:
-X : sort generated structs by order in XML file (default is alphabetically)-a "" : prefix for attribute names (default is Attr)-e "" : prefix for struct names (default is C i.e. by default struct name for XML element Api would CApi; this makes it just Api)-t : by default all fields are strings. This flag tries to infer type from valuesAll options: