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Diffstat (limited to 'src/pkg/encoding/xml/read.go')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/pkg/encoding/xml/read.go | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/pkg/encoding/xml/read.go b/src/pkg/encoding/xml/read.go index 651d13d4d0..75b9f2ba1b 100644 --- a/src/pkg/encoding/xml/read.go +++ b/src/pkg/encoding/xml/read.go @@ -284,6 +284,15 @@ func (p *Decoder) unmarshal(val reflect.Value, start *StartElement) error { } } + // Load value from interface, but only if the result will be + // usefully addressable. + if val.Kind() == reflect.Interface && !val.IsNil() { + e := val.Elem() + if e.Kind() == reflect.Ptr && !e.IsNil() { + val = e + } + } + if val.Kind() == reflect.Ptr { if val.IsNil() { val.Set(reflect.New(val.Type().Elem())) |