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XML (version 1.4-1)

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

1.4-1

License

BSD.

Maintainer

Duncan Lang

Last Published

November 8th, 2025

Functions in XML (1.4-1)

Doctype

Constructor for DTD reference
newXMLDoc

Create internal XML node or document object
XMLNode-class

Classes to describe an XML node object.
parseDTD

Read a Document Type Definition (DTD)
Doctype-class

Class to describe a reference to an XML DTD
[<-.XMLNode

Assign sub-nodes to an XML node
SAXState-class

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

Class to represent reference to C-level data structure for an XML document
startElement.SAX

Generic Methods for SAX callbacks
addNode

Add a node to a tree
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.
dtdIsAttribute

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

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

Find matching nodes in an internal XML tree/DOM
libxmlVersion

Get the version of the libxml library.
append.xmlNode

Add children to an XML node
genericSAXHandlers

SAX generic callback handler list
dtdValidElement

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

Get the names of an XML nodes children.
print.XMLAttributeDef

Methods for displaying XML objects
asXMLNode

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

Determine the number of children in an XMLNode object.
parseURI

Parse a URI string into its elements
saveXML

Output internal XML Tree
supportsExpat

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

Creates string representation of XML node
xmlAttrs

Get the list of attributes of an XML node.
xmlApply

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

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

Default handlers for the SAX-style event XML parser
xmlChildren

Gets the sub-nodes within an XMLNode object.
xmlContainsEntity

Checks if an entity is defined within a DTD.
xmlAttributeType

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

Extraces the tag name of an XMLNode object.
xmlNamespaceDefinitions

Get definitions of any namespaces defined in this XML node
xmlHandler

Example XML Event Parser Handler Functions
xmlNamespace

Retrieve the namespace value of an XML node.
xmlEventParse

XML Event/Callback element-wise Parser
xmlGetAttr

Get the value of an attribute in an XML node
xmlTreeParse

XML Parser
xmlTree

An internal, updatable DOM object for building XML trees
xmlParent

Get parent node of XMLInternalNode
xmlValue

Extract the contents of a leaf XML node
xmlOutputBuffer

XML output streams
xmlNode

Create an XML node
[.XMLNode

Convenience accessors for the children of XMLNode objects.
xmlSize

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

Get the top-level XML node.
xmlElementsByTagName

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

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