XML parsing in golang

abstract_parse.go

package main 


import (
 	"os"
	"encoding/xml"
	"strings"
	"log"
	"runtime/debug"
)


type Article struct {
	Title string `xml:"title"`
	Url string  `xml:"url"`
	Abstract string `xml:"abstract"`
}


func CanonicalizeTitle(title string) string {
	can := strings.ToLower(title)
	//can = strings.Replace(can, " ", "_", -1)
	//can = url.QueryEscape(can)
	spl := strings.Split(can, ":")
	can = spl[1]
	return can

}

func readAbstract(filename string, article chan Article) {
	defer close(article)
	xmlFile, err := os.Open(filename)
	if err != nil {
		log.Printf("Error opening file:", err)
		return
	}
	var inElement string
	decoder := xml.NewDecoder(xmlFile)
	for {
		t, err := decoder.Token()
		if err != nil {
			log.Printf("Error while parsing -> %s", err)
			debug.PrintStack()
			continue
		}
		// Inspect the type of the token just read.
		switch se := t.(type) {
			
		case xml.StartElement:
			// If we just read a StartElement token
			inElement = se.Name.Local
			// ...and its name is "page"
			if inElement == "doc" {
				var p Article
				// decode a whole chunk of following XML into the
				// variable p which is a Page (se above)
				decoder.DecodeElement(&p, &se)
				p.Title = CanonicalizeTitle(p.Title)
				article <- p

			}
			
		default:
		}
			
	}
	xmlFile.Close()
	return
}

func main() {
	d := make(chan  Article, 400)
	go readAbstract("enwiki-20140502-abstract.xml", d)
	for r := range d {
		log.Printf("%s", r.Title)
	}
	log.Printf("Reached here")
}

Parsing Wikimedia Abstract.xml in golang