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XML (version 0.7-1)

xmlName: Extraces the tag name of an XMLNode object.

Description

Each XMLNode object has a tag name introduced in the entry in an XML document. This function returns that name.

Usage

xmlName(node)

Arguments

node
The XMLNode object whose tag name is being requested.

Value

  • A character vector of length 1 which is the node$name entry.

References

http://www.w3.org/XML, http://www.jclark.com/xml, http://www.omegahat.org

See Also

xmlChildren, xmlAttrs, xmlTreeParse

Examples

Run this code
fileName <- system.file("exampleData", "test.xml", package="XML") 
 doc <- xmlTreeParse(fileName)
 xmlName(xmlRoot(doc)[[1]])

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