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XML (version 0.92-2)

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')

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Version

0.92-2

License

BSD.

Maintainer

Duncan Lang

Last Published

November 8th, 2025

Functions in XML (0.92-2)

append.xmlNode

Add children to an XML node
xmlTree

An internal, updatable DOM object for building XML trees
xmlNamespace

Retrieve the namespace value of an XML node.
xmlDOMApply

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

Converts non-XML node objects to XMLTextNode objects
xmlRoot

Get the top-level XML node.
saveXML

Output internal XML Tree
xmlApply

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

XML Event/Callback element-wise Parser
dtdElement

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

Gets the sub-nodes within an XMLNode object.
xmlEventHandler

Default handlers for the SAX-style event XML parser
xmlValue

Extract the contents of a leaf XML node
parseDTD

Read a Document Type Definition (DTD)
print.XMLAttributeDef

Methods for displaying XML objects
xmlElementsByTagName

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

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

Assign sub-nodes to an XML node
xmlContainsEntity

Checks if an entity is defined within a DTD.
xmlOutputBuffer

XML output streams
startElement.SAX

Generic Methods for SAX callbacks
xmlNode

Create an XML node
xmlTreeParse

XML Parser
xmlAttrs

Get the list of attributes of an XML node.
dtdIsAttribute

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

Determines which native XML parsers are being used.
newXMLDoc

Create internal XML node or document object
names.XMLNode

Get the names of an XML nodes children.
libxmlVersion

Get the version of the libxml library.
[.XMLNode

Convenience accessors for the children of XMLNode objects.
dtdValidElement

Determines whether an XML tag is valid within another.
xmlSize

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

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

Determine the number of children in an XMLNode object.
xmlHandler

Example XML Event Parser Handler Functions
genericSAXHandlers

SAX generic callback handler list
dtdElementValidEntry

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