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XML (version 0.97-0)

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

0.97-0

License

BSD.

Maintainer

Duncan Lang

Last Published

November 8th, 2025

Functions in XML (0.97-0)

newXMLDoc

Create internal XML node or document object
dtdElementValidEntry

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

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

Read a Document Type Definition (DTD)
xmlContainsEntity

Checks if an entity is defined within a DTD.
xmlChildren

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

Convenience accessors for the children of XMLNode objects.
xmlRoot

Get the top-level XML node.
xmlElementsByTagName

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

Get the value of an attribute in an XML node
xmlEventHandler

Default handlers for the SAX-style event XML parser
dtdIsAttribute

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

Determines which native XML parsers are being used.
xmlEventParse

XML Event/Callback element-wise Parser
startElement.SAX

Generic Methods for SAX callbacks
xmlValue

Extract the contents of a leaf XML node
[<-.XMLNode

Assign sub-nodes to an XML node
xmlAttrs

Get the list of attributes of an XML node.
xmlNamespace

Retrieve the namespace value of an XML node.
dtdValidElement

Determines whether an XML tag is valid within another.
libxmlVersion

Get the version of the libxml library.
toString.XMLNode

Creates string representation of XML node
SAXState-class

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

Get the names of an XML nodes children.
dtdElement

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

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

Example XML Event Parser Handler Functions
xmlTree

An internal, updatable DOM object for building XML trees
xmlNode

Create an XML node
genericSAXHandlers

SAX generic callback handler list
asXMLNode

Converts non-XML node objects to XMLTextNode objects
length.XMLNode

Determine the number of children in an XMLNode object.
append.xmlNode

Add children to an XML node
saveXML

Output internal XML Tree
xmlTreeParse

XML Parser
print.XMLAttributeDef

Methods for displaying XML objects
xmlOutputBuffer

XML output streams
xmlApply

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

Extraces the tag name of an XMLNode object.
xmlAttributeType

The type of an XML attribute for element from the DTD