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XML (version 0.7-5)

Tools for parsing and generating XML within R and S-Plus.

Description

Parsing facilities for arbitrary XML files, DTDs and HTML, offering both event and tree based parsers which are customizable with R functions.

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install.packages('XML')

Monthly Downloads

405,471

Version

0.7-5

License

BSD.

Maintainer

Duncan Lang

Last Published

January 7th, 2025

Functions in XML (0.7-5)

dtdElement

Gets the definition of an element or entity from a DTD.
dtdValidElement

Determines whether an XML tag is valid within another.
dtdIsAttribute

Query if a name is a valid attribute of a DTD element.
asXMLNode

Converts non-XML node objects to XMLTextNode objects
dtdElementValidEntry

Determines whether an XML element allows a particular type of sub-element.
print.XMLAttributeDef

Methods for displaying XML objects
libxmlVersion

Get the version of the libxml library.
length.XMLNode

Determine the number of children in an XMLNode object.
xmlEventParse

XML Event/Callback element-wise Parser
names.XMLNode

Get the names of an XML nodes children.
parseDTD

Read a Document Type Definition (DTD)
xmlValue

Extract the contents of a leaf XML node
xmlAttributeType

The type of an XML attribute for element from the DTD
xmlDOMApply

Apply function to nodes in an XML tree/DOM.
[<-.XMLNode

Assign sub-nodes to an XML node
xmlEventHandler

Default handlers for the SAX-style event XML parser
newXMLDoc

Create internal XML node or document object
xmlRoot

Get the top-level XML node.
xmlTreeParse

XML Parser
supportsExpat

Determines which native XML parsers are being used.
[.XMLNode

Convenience accessors for the children of XMLNode objects.
xmlNamespace

Retrieve the namespace value of an XML node.
xmlChildren

Gets the sub-nodes within an XMLNode object.
append.xmlNode

Add children to an XML node
xmlContainsEntity

Checks if an entity is defined within a DTD.
xmlNode

Create an XML node
xmlHandler

Example XML Event Parser Handler Functions
xmlOutputBuffer

XML output streams
xmlApply

Applies a function to each of the children of an XMLNode
xmlName

Extraces the tag name of an XMLNode object.
xmlTree

An internal, updatable DOM object for building XML trees
xmlElementsByTagName

Retrieve the children of an XML node with a specific tag name
xmlAttrs

Get the list of attributes of an XML node.
saveXML

Output internal XML Tree
xmlSize

The number of sub-elements within an XML node.