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XML (version 0.95-4)

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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0.95-4

License

BSD.

Maintainer

Duncan Lang

Last Published

November 8th, 2025

Functions in XML (0.95-4)

asXMLNode

Converts non-XML node objects to XMLTextNode objects
xmlContainsEntity

Checks if an entity is defined within a DTD.
libxmlVersion

Get the version of the libxml library.
newXMLDoc

Create internal XML node or document object
xmlTree

An internal, updatable DOM object for building XML trees
xmlName

Extraces the tag name of an XMLNode object.
xmlDOMApply

Apply function to nodes in an XML tree/DOM.
[<-.XMLNode

Assign sub-nodes to an XML node
dtdValidElement

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

Add children to an XML node
xmlAttrs

Get the list of attributes of an XML node.
xmlApply

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

Get the top-level XML node.
xmlOutputBuffer

XML output streams
parseDTD

Read a Document Type Definition (DTD)
names.XMLNode

Get the names of an XML nodes children.
[.XMLNode

Convenience accessors for the children of XMLNode objects.
xmlAttributeType

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

Example XML Event Parser Handler Functions
supportsExpat

Determines which native XML parsers are being used.
xmlSize

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

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

Default handlers for the SAX-style event XML parser
startElement.SAX

Generic Methods for SAX callbacks
SAXState-class

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

Determine the number of children in an XMLNode object.
print.XMLAttributeDef

Methods for displaying XML objects
genericSAXHandlers

SAX generic callback handler list
toString.XMLNode

Creates string representation of XML node
xmlNamespace

Retrieve the namespace value of an XML node.
xmlGetAttr

Get the value of an attribute in an XML node
dtdElement

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

Extract the contents of a leaf XML node
xmlTreeParse

XML Parser
xmlEventParse

XML Event/Callback element-wise Parser
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.
saveXML

Output internal XML Tree
xmlNode

Create an XML node
xmlChildren

Gets the sub-nodes within an XMLNode object.