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XML (version 1.3-2)

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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Version

1.3-2

License

BSD.

Maintainer

Duncan Lang

Last Published

January 7th, 2025

Functions in XML (1.3-2)

Doctype-class

Class to describe a reference to an XML DTD
Doctype

Constructor for DTD reference
startElement.SAX

Generic Methods for SAX callbacks
[<-.XMLNode

Assign sub-nodes to an XML node
SAXState-class

A virtual base class defining methods for SAX parsing
XMLNode-class

Classes to describe an XML node object.
XMLInternalDocument-class

Class to represent reference to C-level data structure for an XML document
addNode

Add a node to a tree
append.xmlNode

Add children to an XML node
asXMLNode

Converts non-XML node objects to XMLTextNode objects
asXMLTreeNode

Convert a regular XML node to one for use in a "flat" tree
dtdElement

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

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

Determines whether an XML tag is valid within another.
genericSAXHandlers

SAX generic callback handler list
getNodeSet

Find matching nodes in an internal XML tree/DOM
newXMLDoc

Create internal XML node or document object
dtdIsAttribute

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

Get the version of the libxml library.
names.XMLNode

Get the names of an XML nodes children.
parseDTD

Read a Document Type Definition (DTD)
supportsExpat

Determines which native XML parsers are being used.
xmlAttributeType

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

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

Methods for displaying XML objects
toString.XMLNode

Creates string representation of XML node
xmlAttrs

Get the list of attributes of an XML node.
parseURI

Parse a URI string into its elements
xmlContainsEntity

Checks if an entity is defined within a DTD.
xmlDOMApply

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

Gets the sub-nodes within an XMLNode object.
saveXML

Output internal XML Tree
xmlElementsByTagName

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

Default handlers for the SAX-style event XML parser
xmlEventParse

XML Event/Callback element-wise Parser
xmlName

Extraces the tag name of an XMLNode object.
xmlFlatListTree

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

Example XML Event Parser Handler Functions
xmlGetAttr

Get the value of an attribute in an XML node
xmlNamespaceDefinitions

Get definitions of any namespaces defined in this XML node
xmlNode

Create an XML node
xmlRoot

Get the top-level XML node.
xmlParent

Get parent node of XMLInternalNode
xmlOutputBuffer

XML output streams
[.XMLNode

Convenience accessors for the children of XMLNode objects.
xmlTree

An internal, updatable DOM object for building XML trees
xmlTreeParse

XML Parser
xmlValue

Extract the contents of a leaf XML node
xmlSize

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

Retrieve the namespace value of an XML node.
length.XMLNode

Determine the number of children in an XMLNode object.