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XML (version 0.9-1)

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

289,018

Version

0.9-1

License

BSD.

Maintainer

Duncan Lang

Last Published

November 8th, 2025

Functions in XML (0.9-1)

xmlAttrs

Get the list of attributes of an XML node.
asXMLNode

Converts non-XML node objects to XMLTextNode objects
[<-.XMLNode

Assign sub-nodes to an XML node
xmlElementsByTagName

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

XML Parser
supportsExpat

Determines which native XML parsers are being used.
append.xmlNode

Add children to an XML node
xmlAttributeType

The type of an XML attribute for element from the DTD
[.XMLNode

Convenience accessors for the children of XMLNode objects.
dtdElementValidEntry

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

Determines whether an XML tag is valid within another.
dtdElement

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

Default handlers for the SAX-style event XML parser
xmlEventParse

XML Event/Callback element-wise Parser
newXMLDoc

Create internal XML node or document object
dtdIsAttribute

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

Retrieve the namespace value of an XML node.
length.XMLNode

Determine the number of children in an XMLNode object.
xmlChildren

Gets the sub-nodes within an XMLNode object.
xmlHandler

Example XML Event Parser Handler Functions
xmlRoot

Get the top-level XML node.
parseDTD

Read a Document Type Definition (DTD)
saveXML

Output internal XML Tree
xmlApply

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

XML output streams
xmlNode

Create an XML node
xmlContainsEntity

Checks if an entity is defined within a DTD.
print.XMLAttributeDef

Methods for displaying XML objects
xmlValue

Extract the contents of a leaf XML node
xmlName

Extraces the tag name of an XMLNode object.
names.XMLNode

Get the names of an XML nodes children.
xmlDOMApply

Apply function to nodes in an XML tree/DOM.
libxmlVersion

Get the version of the libxml library.
xmlSize

The number of sub-elements within an XML node.
xmlTree

An internal, updatable DOM object for building XML trees