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XML (version 0.94-0)

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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0.94-0

License

BSD.

Maintainer

Duncan Lang

Last Published

November 8th, 2025

Functions in XML (0.94-0)

SAXState-class

A virtual base class defining methods for SAX parsing
toString.XMLNode

Creates string representation of XML node
newXMLDoc

Create internal XML node or document object
[<-.XMLNode

Assign sub-nodes to an XML node
supportsExpat

Determines which native XML parsers are being used.
xmlApply

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

Convenience accessors for the children of XMLNode objects.
startElement.SAX

Generic Methods for SAX callbacks
length.XMLNode

Determine the number of children in an XMLNode object.
xmlSize

The number of sub-elements within an XML node.
append.xmlNode

Add children to an XML node
xmlDOMApply

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

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

SAX generic callback handler list
xmlHandler

Example XML Event Parser Handler Functions
xmlEventHandler

Default handlers for the SAX-style event XML parser
xmlTree

An internal, updatable DOM object for building XML trees
names.XMLNode

Get the names of an XML nodes children.
xmlGetAttr

Get the value of an attribute in an XML node
xmlChildren

Gets the sub-nodes within an XMLNode object.
xmlValue

Extract the contents of a leaf XML node
xmlContainsEntity

Checks if an entity is defined within a DTD.
xmlRoot

Get the top-level XML node.
dtdIsAttribute

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

Read a Document Type Definition (DTD)
xmlNode

Create an XML node
print.XMLAttributeDef

Methods for displaying XML objects
dtdElementValidEntry

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

XML Parser
xmlEventParse

XML Event/Callback element-wise Parser
xmlElementsByTagName

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

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

Get the version of the libxml library.
xmlAttrs

Get the list of attributes of an XML node.
xmlName

Extraces the tag name of an XMLNode object.
xmlNamespace

Retrieve the namespace value of an XML node.
asXMLNode

Converts non-XML node objects to XMLTextNode objects
saveXML

Output internal XML Tree
dtdValidElement

Determines whether an XML tag is valid within another.
xmlOutputBuffer

XML output streams