How to decode Reddit's RSS using Golang?

Question

I've been playing about with Go's XML package and cannot see what is wrong with the following code.

package main

import (
    "encoding/xml"
    "fmt"
    "net/http"
) 

type Channel struct {
    Items Item
}

type Item struct {
    Title       string `xml:"title"`
    Link        string `xml:"link"`
    Description string `xml:"description"`
}

func main() {

    var items = new(Channel)
    res, err := http.Get("http://www.reddit.com/r/google.xml")

    if err != nil {
        fmt.Printf("Error: %v\n", err)
    } else {
        decoded := xml.NewDecoder(res.Body)

        err = decoded.Decode(items)

        if err != nil {
            fmt.Printf("Error: %v\n", err)
        }

        fmt.Printf("Title: %s\n", items.Items.Title)
    }
}

The above code runs without any errors and prints to the terminal:

Title:

The struct seems empty but I can't see why it isn't getting populated with the XML data.

Answer 1

I'd be completely explicit like this - name all the XML parts

See the playground for a full working example

type Rss struct {
    Channel Channel `xml:"channel"`
}

type Channel struct {
    Title       string `xml:"title"`
    Link        string `xml:"link"`
    Description string `xml:"description"`
    Items       []Item `xml:"item"`
}

type Item struct {
    Title       string `xml:"title"`
    Link        string `xml:"link"`
    Description string `xml:"description"`
}