go encoding_error ai_generated true

xml: unknown attribute "foo"

ID: go/encoding-xml-unmarshal-unknown-attribute

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85%Fix Rate
83%Confidence
1Evidence
2024-02-28First Seen

Version Compatibility

VersionStatusIntroducedDeprecatedNotes
go1.21 active — — —
go1.22 active — — —

Root Cause

The XML decoder encountered an attribute in the input that does not map to any field in the target struct.

generic

中文

XML 解码器在输入中遇到了一个未映射到目标结构体任何字段的属性。

Official Documentation

https://pkg.go.dev/encoding/xml#Unmarshal

Workarounds

  1. 95% success Add a field with the attribute tag: Foo string `xml:"foo,attr"` in the struct. 
    Add a field with the attribute tag: Foo string `xml:"foo,attr"` in the struct.
  2. 70% success Use a custom unmarshaler or XMLDecoder with strict=false if using custom parser. 
    Use a custom unmarshaler or XMLDecoder with strict=false if using custom parser.

中文步骤

  1. 在结构体中添加具有属性标签的字段：Foo string `xml:"foo,attr"`。
  2. 使用自定义反序列化器或设置 XMLDecoder 的 strict=false（如果使用自定义解析器）。

Dead Ends

Common approaches that don't work:

  1. Adding a field with xml:"foo,attr" but with wrong type 55% fail

    If the field type doesn't match the attribute value (e.g., int vs string), it still fails with type error.

  2. Ignoring the error and continuing 90% fail

    The unmarshal returns an error; ignoring it leads to incomplete or nil data.