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Parsing XML to JSON, then back to XML. I've mapped the <directory> XML tag to be ignored, but when xml.Marshal runs, I get:

<Directory><directory></directory>**MY DATA**</Directory>

I'd like the output XML to be:

<directory>**MY DATA**</directory>

The output is also only partial data from the input file; the last <fn>,<ct>,<ln> tags. This is true for either JSON or XML in their respective name conversions.

My golang:

package main

import (
 "encoding/json"
 "encoding/xml"
 "fmt"
 "io/ioutil"
 "log"
 "os"
)

type Directory struct 
 XMLtag xml.Name `xml:"directory" json:"-"` //Locate XML <directory> tag
 ContactList []ItemList `xml:"item_list" json:"directory"` //Locate XML <item_list> tag & call it "directory" in JSON


type ItemList struct 
 LocalContact *LocalContact `xml:"item" json:"contact"` //Locate XML <item> tag & call it "contact" in JSON


type LocalContact struct 
 Name string `xml:"fn" json:"name"` //Locate XML <fn> tag & call it "name" in JSON
 Extension string `xml:"ct" json:"extension"` //Locate XML <ct> tag & call it "extension" in JSON
 Long string `xml:"ln" json"ln"` //Locate XML <ln> tag


var (
 localfile string = os.Getenv("USERPROFILE") + "\tmp-config.cfg"
)

func main() 
 f, err := ioutil.ReadFile(localfile)
 if err != nil 
 log.Fatal(err)
 

 //Read XML into struct
 var directory Directory
 xml.Unmarshal([]byte(f), &directory)
 //Marshal XML to JSON
 jsonData, _ := json.Marshal(directory)
 fmt.Println(string(jsonData))

 //Marshal JSON to XML
 directory = Directory
 json.Unmarshal([]byte(jsonData), &directory)
 xmlData, _ := xml.Marshal(directory)
 fmt.Println(string(xmlData))

My input file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<!-- $RCSfile: 000000000000-directory~.xml,v $ $Revision: 1.3 $ -->
<directory>
 <item_list>
 <item>
 <ln> 1002 Shelly </ln>
 <fn> Shelly </fn>
 <ct> 1002 </ct>
 </item>
 <item>
 <ln> 1003 Chris </ln>
 <fn> Chris </fn>
 <ct> 1003 </ct>
 </item>
 <item>
 <ln> 1004 Extra </ln>
 <fn> Extra </fn>
 <ct> 1004 </ct>
 </item>
 <item>
 <ln> 1005 Ray </ln>
 <fn> Ray </fn>
 <ct> 1005 </ct>
 </item>
 <item>
 <ln> 1006 Kitchen </ln>
 <fn> Kitchen </fn>
 <ct> 1006 </ct>
 </item>
 <item>
 <ln> 1007 Scott </ln>
 <fn> Scott </fn>
 <ct> 1007 </ct>
 </item>
 <item>
 <ln> 1008 Heath </ln>
 <fn> Heath </fn>
 <ct> 1008 </ct>
 </item>
 <item>
 <ln> 1009 Andy </ln>
 <fn> Andy </fn>
 <ct> 1009 </ct>
 </item>
 <item>
 <ln> 1010 John </ln>
 <fn> John </fn>
 <ct> 1010 </ct>
 </item>
 </item_list>
</directory>