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github.com/m29h/xml
Package github.com/m29h/xml
implements a XML 1.0 marshaler that is a drop in encoding/xml
replacement maintaining full interface compatibility to it but aims to producing C14N Exclusive XML Canonicalization compatible byte sequences. This includes sorting of all rendered element attributes as per the C14N-XML spec.
A Struct defined in the normal way as known from encoding/xml
type Person struct {
XMLName xml.Name `xml:"http://example.com/ns1 person"`
Name string `xml:"name"`
Phone string `xml:"http://example.com/ns2 phone,omitempty"`
}
is marshaled to
<ns1:person xmlns:ns1="http://example.com/ns1">
<ns1:name>Foo</ns1:name>
<ns2:phone xmlns:ns2="http://example.com/ns2">123</ns2:phone>
</ns1:person>
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