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XML (version 0.99-6)

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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0.99-6

License

BSD.

Maintainer

Duncan Lang

Last Published

November 8th, 2025

Functions in XML (0.99-6)

append.xmlNode

Add children to an XML node
parseDTD

Read a Document Type Definition (DTD)
dtdValidElement

Determines whether an XML tag is valid within another.
length.XMLNode

Determine the number of children in an XMLNode object.
supportsExpat

Determines which native XML parsers are being used.
xmlParent

Get parent node of XMLInternalNode
xmlSize

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

Get the top-level XML node.
xmlEventParse

XML Event/Callback element-wise Parser
getNodeSet

Find matching nodes in an internal XML tree/DOM
xmlAttributeType

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

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

Constructor for DTD reference
[<-.XMLNode

Assign sub-nodes to an XML node
saveXML

Output internal XML Tree
xmlHandler

Example XML Event Parser Handler Functions
xmlGetAttr

Get the value of an attribute in an XML node
Doctype-class

Class to describe a reference to an XML DTD
SAXState-class

A virtual base class defining methods for SAX parsing
startElement.SAX

Generic Methods for SAX callbacks
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
names.XMLNode

Get the names of an XML nodes children.
xmlValue

Extract the contents of a leaf XML node
xmlTreeParse

XML Parser
xmlApply

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

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

SAX generic callback handler list
dtdIsAttribute

Query if a name is a valid attribute of a DTD element.
toString.XMLNode

Creates string representation of XML node
xmlOutputBuffer

XML output streams
xmlTree

An internal, updatable DOM object for building XML trees
xmlContainsEntity

Checks if an entity is defined within a DTD.
xmlNode

Create an XML node
print.XMLAttributeDef

Methods for displaying XML objects
[.XMLNode

Convenience accessors for the children of XMLNode objects.
XMLNode-class

Classes to describe an XML node object.
xmlEventHandler

Default handlers for the SAX-style event XML parser
newXMLDoc

Create internal XML node or document object
xmlDOMApply

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

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

Get the version of the libxml library.
xmlAttrs

Get the list of attributes of an XML node.
xmlChildren

Gets the sub-nodes within an XMLNode object.