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XML (version 1.92-0)

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

1.92-0

License

BSD.

Maintainer

Duncan Lang

Last Published

November 8th, 2025

Functions in XML (1.92-0)

addChildren

Add child nodes to an XML node
parseDTD

Read a Document Type Definition (DTD)
xmlApply

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

Get the top-level XML node.
supportsExpat

Determines which native XML parsers are being used.
Doctype

Constructor for DTD reference
dtdElement

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

Release the specified object and clean up its memory usage
genericSAXHandlers

SAX generic callback handler list
length.XMLNode

Determine the number of children in an XMLNode object.
dtdValidElement

Determines whether an XML tag is valid within another.
newXMLDoc

Create internal XML node or document object
xmlFlatListTree

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

Apply function to nodes in an XML tree/DOM.
XMLInternalDocument-class

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

Find matching nodes in an internal XML tree/DOM
parseURI

Parse a URI string into its elements
xmlGetAttr

Get the value of an attribute in an XML node
xmlParent

Get parent node of XMLInternalNode or ancestor nodes
xmlTree

An internal, updatable DOM object for building XML trees
SAXState-class

A virtual base class defining methods for SAX parsing
dtdIsAttribute

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

Get the names of an XML nodes children.
saveXML

Output internal XML Tree
xmlEventHandler

Default handlers for the SAX-style event XML parser
toHTML

Create an HTML representation of the given R object, using internal C-level nodes
xmlName

Extraces the tag name of an XMLNode object.
xmlContainsEntity

Checks if an entity is defined within a DTD.
XMLNode-class

Classes to describe an XML node object.
xmlElementsByTagName

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

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

Gets the sub-nodes within an XMLNode object.
xmlAttributeType

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

Example XML Event Parser Handler Functions
xmlSource

Source the R code, examples, etc. from an XML document
asXMLTreeNode

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

Get definitions of any namespaces defined in this XML node
xmlNamespace

Retrieve the namespace value of an XML node.
asXMLNode

Converts non-XML node objects to XMLTextNode objects
[<-.XMLNode

Assign sub-nodes to an XML node
print.XMLAttributeDef

Methods for displaying XML objects
[.XMLNode

Convenience accessors for the children of XMLNode objects.
xmlNode

Create an XML node
xmlTreeParse

XML Parser
append.xmlNode

Add children to an XML node
catalogResolve

Look up an element via the XML catalog mechanism
libxmlVersion

Get the version of the libxml library.
toString.XMLNode

Creates string representation of XML node
xmlEventParse

XML Event/Callback element-wise Parser
xmlAttrs

Get the list of attributes of an XML node.
startElement.SAX

Generic Methods for SAX callbacks
Doctype-class

Class to describe a reference to an XML DTD
addNode

Add a node to a tree
xmlSize

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

Extract the contents of a leaf XML node
xmlOutputBuffer

XML output streams