Go XML marshalling without encoding HTML entities

Question

I'd like to marshal a struct into XML, but without encoding special HTML-entities. See this example:

http://play.golang.org/p/7NOhOTwlHr

The string test&abc gets converted to test&abc, but I'd like it to stay test&abc

Answer 1

You can use the tag ",innerxml" as show in the example. Here it explains that ",innerxml" makes unmarshal "assign raw XML data to it". But it also work well with Marshal avoiding the string formating.

http://play.golang.org/p/z8JQjRdbV4

Answer 2

The ampersand is escaped using the rules in the XML specification. It is not possible to disable escaping in the output of the standard encoding/xml package.

(Ampersand escaping in HTML and XML shares a common heritage from SGML, but each is specified separately. One does not derive from or reference the other).