I'm just using pointers now, this approach seems to work fine for my 
purpose: https://go.dev/play/p/lMwZisTayt3

Steffen Wentzel schrieb am Samstag, 26. Februar 2022 um 11:00:49 UTC+1:

> Dear community,
>
> how can we XML marshal a struct field depending on the value of another 
> struct field in the same struct?
>
> Playground Example: https://go.dev/play/p/vfRB-GfzZ54
>
> My approaches so far:
>
>    - Use a custom type for the Feature field and implement xml.Marshaler. 
>    However MarshalXML has no access to other fields, so I might need some 
> sort 
>    of "closure", not sure how to put that together
>    - Implement xml.Marshaler for the entire struct - due to the number of 
>    fields included in the real struct (> 100), I guess this would be a lot of 
>    work..
>    - Use separate types for each "ItemType" - this replicates a lot of 
>    work because most struct fields are needed for both ItemType values
>
>
> I hope someone with more experience can give me some hints or tips.
>
> Thank you and all the best,
> Steffen
>

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