I query a device and it returns an XML output with the number of alerts. I want to store each alert as a struct and store all the alerts in a slice.
I have looked through a number of answers for a similar problem but I am having a hard time finding how to parse the attributes of each msg tag and put the attributes into the struct.
Example Code: https://play.golang.org/p/XZMONjRc5q1
I had to add the attr to the vbcAlert struct.
I have made corrections to your example code on the playground.
<msg>
element was missing a closing tag, so there would've been parse errors."xml version"
. Your outer element is the <alarmlist>
, which contains zero or more elements named <msg>
.<msg>
are not elements. They are attributes and must be tagged appropriately.I imagine this is not the only XML document your code will need to handle in the long run, so I recommend you read the godoc very carefully to understand the tag syntax. Look for introductions to XML on the nets if you're having trouble with some of the terminology.