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XML (version 0.93-2)

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

0.93-2

License

BSD.

Maintainer

Duncan Lang

Last Published

November 8th, 2025

Functions in XML (0.93-2)

dtdValidElement

Determines whether an XML tag is valid within another.
append.xmlNode

Add children to an XML node
dtdElementValidEntry

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

Generic Methods for SAX callbacks
asXMLNode

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

Assign sub-nodes to an XML node
length.XMLNode

Determine the number of children in an XMLNode object.
xmlNamespace

Retrieve the namespace value of an XML node.
print.XMLAttributeDef

Methods for displaying XML objects
xmlAttrs

Get the list of attributes of an XML node.
saveXML

Output internal XML Tree
parseDTD

Read a Document Type Definition (DTD)
genericSAXHandlers

SAX generic callback handler list
dtdIsAttribute

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

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

Checks if an entity is defined within a DTD.
libxmlVersion

Get the version of the libxml library.
xmlValue

Extract the contents of a leaf XML node
xmlChildren

Gets the sub-nodes within an XMLNode object.
xmlTreeParse

XML Parser
xmlNode

Create an XML node
xmlDOMApply

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

XML Event/Callback element-wise Parser
xmlGetAttr

Get the value of an attribute in an XML node
dtdElement

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

Creates string representation of XML node
xmlAttributeType

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

Extraces the tag name of an XMLNode object.
supportsExpat

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

Get the names of an XML nodes children.
xmlEventHandler

Default handlers for the SAX-style event XML parser
xmlRoot

Get the top-level XML node.
xmlOutputBuffer

XML output streams
xmlApply

Applies a function to each of the children of an XMLNode
[.XMLNode

Convenience accessors for the children of XMLNode objects.
xmlSize

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

Example XML Event Parser Handler Functions
xmlTree

An internal, updatable DOM object for building XML trees
newXMLDoc

Create internal XML node or document object