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XML (version 1.1-1)

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

1.1-1

License

BSD.

Maintainer

Duncan Lang

Last Published

November 8th, 2025

Functions in XML (1.1-1)

[<-.XMLNode

Assign sub-nodes to an XML node
startElement.SAX

Generic Methods for SAX callbacks
addNode

Add a node to a tree
SAXState-class

A virtual base class defining methods for SAX parsing
dtdElementValidEntry

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

Read a Document Type Definition (DTD)
names.XMLNode

Get the names of an XML nodes children.
dtdIsAttribute

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

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

SAX generic callback handler list
dtdValidElement

Determines whether an XML tag is valid within another.
Doctype

Constructor for DTD reference
Doctype-class

Class to describe a reference to an XML DTD
libxmlVersion

Get the version of the libxml library.
asXMLTreeNode

Convert a regular XML node to one for use in a "flat" tree
print.XMLAttributeDef

Methods for displaying XML objects
xmlContainsEntity

Checks if an entity is defined within a DTD.
parseURI

Parse a URI string into its elements
xmlChildren

Gets the sub-nodes within an XMLNode object.
supportsExpat

Determines which native XML parsers are being used.
xmlEventParse

XML Event/Callback element-wise Parser
xmlGetAttr

Get the value of an attribute in an XML node
xmlHandler

Example XML Event Parser Handler Functions
xmlTreeParse

XML Parser
length.XMLNode

Determine the number of children in an XMLNode object.
xmlNamespace

Retrieve the namespace value of an XML node.
xmlNode

Create an XML node
xmlRoot

Get the top-level XML node.
xmlOutputBuffer

XML output streams
XMLNode-class

Classes to describe an XML node object.
xmlElementsByTagName

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

Get parent node of XMLInternalNode
xmlValue

Extract the contents of a leaf XML node
toString.XMLNode

Creates string representation of XML node
xmlTree

An internal, updatable DOM object for building XML trees
xmlApply

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

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

Create internal XML node or document object
saveXML

Output internal XML Tree
xmlSize

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

Extraces the tag name of an XMLNode object.
xmlAttrs

Get the list of attributes of an XML node.
xmlDOMApply

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

Get definitions of any namespaces defined in this XML node
getNodeSet

Find matching nodes in an internal XML tree/DOM
[.XMLNode

Convenience accessors for the children of XMLNode objects.
append.xmlNode

Add children to an XML node
asXMLNode

Converts non-XML node objects to XMLTextNode objects
xmlFlatListTree

Constructors for trees stored as flat list of nodes with information about parents and children.
xmlEventHandler

Default handlers for the SAX-style event XML parser