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XML (version 0.99-2)

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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0.99-2

License

BSD.

Maintainer

Duncan Lang

Last Published

November 8th, 2025

Functions in XML (0.99-2)

Doctype-class

Class to describe a reference to an XML DTD
xmlHandler

Example XML Event Parser Handler Functions
xmlDOMApply

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

Create internal XML node or document object
getNodeSet

Find matching nodes in an internal XML tree/DOM
xmlAttrs

Get the list of attributes of an XML node.
XMLNode-class

Classes to describe an XML node object.
dtdValidElement

Determines whether an XML tag is valid within another.
asXMLNode

Converts non-XML node objects to XMLTextNode objects
xmlTree

An internal, updatable DOM object for building XML trees
[<-.XMLNode

Assign sub-nodes to an XML node
Doctype

Constructor for DTD reference
genericSAXHandlers

SAX generic callback handler list
supportsExpat

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

Creates string representation of XML node
xmlAttributeType

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

Convenience accessors for the children of XMLNode objects.
length.XMLNode

Determine the number of children in an XMLNode object.
xmlTreeParse

XML Parser
dtdElementValidEntry

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

Query if a name is a valid attribute of a DTD element.
append.xmlNode

Add children to an XML node
names.XMLNode

Get the names of an XML nodes children.
xmlChildren

Gets the sub-nodes within an XMLNode object.
xmlRoot

Get the top-level XML node.
SAXState-class

A virtual base class defining methods for SAX parsing
dtdElement

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

XML output streams
xmlValue

Extract the contents of a leaf XML node
xmlSize

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

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

Extraces the tag name of an XMLNode object.
startElement.SAX

Generic Methods for SAX callbacks
saveXML

Output internal XML Tree
xmlApply

Applies a function to each of the children of an XMLNode
print.XMLAttributeDef

Methods for displaying XML objects
xmlNode

Create an XML node
xmlParent

Get parent node of XMLInternalNode
parseDTD

Read a Document Type Definition (DTD)
xmlEventParse

XML Event/Callback element-wise Parser
xmlGetAttr

Get the value of an attribute in an XML node
xmlNamespace

Retrieve the namespace value of an XML node.