There comes a point in every developer’s life where XML data is painfully unavoidable to work with. RSS Feeds try to make this easier but everyone prefers good ol’ JSON, unless you are a sadist.
In Golang we can attack this in a number of ways like using an XML to JSON Library, but why not use the Go standard libraries and save some vendoring issues.
Building our own XML to JSON function I was recently working on something that required a Medium RSS feed published to a website and thought why not use a GoLang function running on OpenFaaS to accomplish this.
Jan 22, 2020 - 6 min read