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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<users>
  <user type="admin">
    <name>Elliot</name>
    <social>
      <facebook>https://facebook.com</facebook>
 

      <twitter>https://twitter.com</twitter>
      <youtube>https://youtube.com</youtube>
    </social>
  </user>  
  <user type="reader">
    <name>Fraser</name>
    <social>
      <facebook>https://facebook.com</facebook>
      <twitter>
 
https://twitter.com</twitter>
      <youtube>https://youtube.com</youtube>
    </social>
  </user>  
</users>

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package main


import (
	"fmt"
	"io/ioutil"
	"os"
)

func main() {

	// Open our xmlFile
	xmlFile, err := os.Open("users.xml")
	// if we os.Open returns an error then handle it
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
	}

	fmt.Println("Successfully Opened users.xml")
	// defer the closing of our xmlFile so that we can parse it later on
	defer xmlFile.Close()

}

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import (
  ... 
  // remember to add encoding/xml to your list of imports
	"encoding/xml"
	...
)

// our struct which contains the complete
// array of all Users in the file
type Users struct {
	XMLName xml.Name `xml:"users"`
	Users   []User   `xml:"user"`
}

// the user struct, this contains our
// Type attribute, our user's name and
// a social struct which will contain all
// our social links
type User struct {
	XMLName xml.Name `xml:"user"`
	Type    string   `xml:"type,attr"`
	Name    string   `xml:"name"`
	Social  Social   `xml:"social"`
}

// a simple struct which contains all our
// social links
type Social struct {
	XMLName  xml.Name `xml:"social"`
	Facebook string   `xml:"facebook"`
	Twitter  string   `xml:"twitter"`
	Youtube  string   `xml:"youtube"`
}

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// read our opened xmlFile as a byte array.
byteValue, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(xmlFile)

// we initialize our Users array
var users Users
// we unmarshal our byteArray which contains our
// xmlFiles content into 'users' which we defined above
xml.Unmarshal(byteValue, &users)

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package main

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

// our struct which contains the complete
// array of all Users in the file
type Users struct {
	XMLName xml.Name `xml:"users"`
	Users   []User   `xml:"user"`
}

// the user struct, this contains our
// Type attribute, our user's name and
// a social struct which will contain all
// our social links
type User struct {
	XMLName xml.Name `xml:"user"`
	Type    string   `xml:"type,attr"`
	Name    string   `xml:"name"`
	Social  Social   `xml:"social"`
}

// a simple struct which contains all our
// social links
type Social struct {
	XMLName  xml.Name `xml:"social"`
	Facebook string   `xml:"facebook"`
	Twitter  string   `xml:"twitter"`
	Youtube  string   `xml:"youtube"`
}

func main() {

	// Open our xmlFile
	xmlFile, err := os.Open("users.xml")
	// if we os.Open returns an error then handle it
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
	}

	fmt.Println("Successfully Opened users.xml")
	// defer the closing of our xmlFile so that we can parse it later on
	defer xmlFile.Close()

	// read our opened xmlFile as a byte array.
	byteValue, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(xmlFile)

	// we initialize our Users array
	var users Users
	// we unmarshal our byteArray which contains our
	// xmlFiles content into 'users' which we defined above
	xml.Unmarshal(byteValue, &users)

	// we iterate through every user within our users array and
	// print out the user Type, their name, and their facebook url
	// as just an example
	for i := 0; i < len(users.Users); i++ {
		fmt.Println("User Type: " + users.Users[i].Type)
		fmt.Println("User Name: " + users.Users[i].Name)
		fmt.Println("Facebook Url: " + users.Users[i].Social.Facebook)
	}

}