I'm trying to write a very simple parser in Go for a large xml file (the dblp.xml), an excerpt of which is below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE dblp SYSTEM "dblp.dtd">
<dblp>
<article key="journals/cacm/Gentry10" mdate="2010-04-26">
<author>Craig Gentry</author>
<title>Computing arbitrary functions of encrypted data.</title>
<pages>97-105</pages>
<year>2010</year>
<volume>53</volume>
<journal>Commun. ACM</journal>
<number>3</number>
<ee>http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1666420.1666444</ee>
<url>db/journals/cacm/cacm53.html#Gentry10</url>
</article>
<article key="journals/cacm/Gentry10" mdate="2010-04-26">
<author>Craig Gentry Number2</author>
<title>Computing arbitrary functions of encrypted data.</title>
<pages>97-105</pages>
<year>2010</year>
<volume>53</volume>
<journal>Commun. ACM</journal>
<number>3</number>
<ee>http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1666420.1666444</ee>
<url>db/journals/cacm/cacm53.html#Gentry10</url>
</article>
</dblp>
My code is as follows and it looks like there's something going on at xml.Unmarshal(byteValue, &articles)
, as I cannot get any of the xml's values in the output. Can you help me with what is wrong with my code?
package main
import (
"encoding/xml"
"fmt"
"io/ioutil"
"os"
)
// Contains the array of articles in the dblp xml
type Dblp struct {
XMLName xml.Name `xml:"dblp"`
Dblp []Article `xml:"article"`
}
// Contains the article element tags and attributes
type Article struct {
XMLName xml.Name `xml:"article"`
Key string `xml:"key,attr"`
Year string `xml:"year"`
}
func main() {
xmlFile, err := os.Open("TestDblp.xml")
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
}
fmt.Println("Successfully Opened TestDblp.xml")
// defer the closing of our xmlFile so that we can parse it later on
defer xmlFile.Close()
// read our opened xmlFile as a byte array.
byteValue, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(xmlFile)
var articles Dblp
fmt.Println("Entered var")
// we unmarshal our byteArray which contains our
// xmlFiles content into 'users' which we defined above
xml.Unmarshal(byteValue, &articles)
for i := 0; i < len(articles.Dblp); i++ {
fmt.Println("Entered loop")
fmt.Println("get title: " + articles.Dblp[i].Key)
fmt.Println("get year: " + articles.Dblp[i].Year)
}
}