Mastering Go - Second Edition

Customizing XML output

In this subsection, you will learn how to modify and customize the generated XML output. The name of the utility, which will be presented in three parts, is modXML.go. Note that the data that is going to be converted into XML is hardcoded in the program for reasons of simplicity.

The first part of modXML.go is as follows:

package main 
 
import ( 
    "encoding/xml" 
    "fmt" 
    "os" 
) 
 
func main() { 
    type Address struct { 
        City, Country string 
    } 
    type Employee struct { 
        XMLName   xml.Name `xml:"employee"` 
        Id        int      `xml:"id,attr"` 
        FirstName string   `xml:"name>first"` 
        LastName  string   `xml:"name>last"` 
        Initials  string   `xml:"name>initials"` 
        Height    float32  `xml:"height,omitempty"` 
        Address 
        Comment string `xml:",comment"` 
    } 

This is where the structure ...