Golang XML Parsing Example - http://play.golang.org/p/Qewm4sEoZ6

xml-parsing.go

package main

import(
	"encoding/xml"
	"fmt"
	"strings"
)

var text = `
<people>
    <person id="10">
       <name>Fred Flintstone</name>
       <address>
	  <city>Bedrock</city>
	  <state>CA</state>
       </address>
   </person>
    <person id="11">
       <name>Will Farrell</name>
       <address>
	  <city>Los Angeles</city>
	  <state>CA</state>
       </address>
   </person>
    <person id="12">
       <name>Vince Vaughn</name>
       <address>
          <city>Los Angeles</city>
          <state>CA</state>
       </address>
   </person>
    <person id="13">
       <name>Alexander Pavlov</name>
       <address>
	  <city>Madison</city>
	  <state>WI</state>
       </address>
   </person>
    <person id="14">
       <name>Michael Connley</name>
       <address>
	 <city>Eau Claire</city>
	 <state>WI</state>
       </address>
   </person>
</people>`

type Results struct{
	People []Person `xml:"person"`
}

type People []Person
type Person struct {
	Id	int	`xml:"id,attr"`
	Name	string	`xml:"name"`
	Address Address `xml:"address"`
}

type Address struct{
	City  string `xml:"city"`
	State string `xml:"state"`
}

func main() {
	results := new(Results)
	xml.NewDecoder(strings.NewReader(text)).Decode(results)
	
	for _, p := range results.People{
		fmt.Printf("person = %+v\n", p)
	}
}