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XML (version 0.95-0)

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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Version

0.95-0

License

BSD.

Maintainer

Duncan Lang

Last Published

November 8th, 2025

Functions in XML (0.95-0)

startElement.SAX

Generic Methods for SAX callbacks
[<-.XMLNode

Assign sub-nodes to an XML node
xmlApply

Applies a function to each of the children of an XMLNode
SAXState-class

A virtual base class defining methods for SAX parsing
dtdElement

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

Determine the number of children in an XMLNode object.
asXMLNode

Converts non-XML node objects to XMLTextNode objects
xmlElementsByTagName

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

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

Create internal XML node or document object
xmlContainsEntity

Checks if an entity is defined within a DTD.
xmlEventHandler

Default handlers for the SAX-style event XML parser
libxmlVersion

Get the version of the libxml library.
genericSAXHandlers

SAX generic callback handler list
saveXML

Output internal XML Tree
parseDTD

Read a Document Type Definition (DTD)
dtdElementValidEntry

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

Gets the sub-nodes within an XMLNode object.
names.XMLNode

Get the names of an XML nodes children.
dtdValidElement

Determines whether an XML tag is valid within another.
xmlNode

Create an XML node
append.xmlNode

Add children to an XML node
xmlDOMApply

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

Retrieve the namespace value of an XML node.
xmlAttrs

Get the list of attributes of an XML node.
toString.XMLNode

Creates string representation of XML node
xmlOutputBuffer

XML output streams
print.XMLAttributeDef

Methods for displaying XML objects
xmlTreeParse

XML Parser
xmlName

Extraces the tag name of an XMLNode object.
supportsExpat

Determines which native XML parsers are being used.
xmlAttributeType

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

Convenience accessors for the children of XMLNode objects.
xmlValue

Extract the contents of a leaf XML node
xmlEventParse

XML Event/Callback element-wise Parser
xmlSize

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

An internal, updatable DOM object for building XML trees
xmlGetAttr

Get the value of an attribute in an XML node
xmlRoot

Get the top-level XML node.
xmlHandler

Example XML Event Parser Handler Functions