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XML (version 2.1-0)

Tools for parsing and generating XML within R and S-Plus.

Description

This package provides many approaches for both reading and creating XML (and HTML) documents (including DTDs), both local and accessible via HTTP or FTP. It also offers access to an XPath "interpreter".

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install.packages('XML')

Monthly Downloads

289,018

Version

2.1-0

License

BSD

Maintainer

Duncan Lang

Last Published

November 8th, 2025

Functions in XML (2.1-0)

Assign sub-nodes to an XML node

XMLCodeFile-class

Simple classes for identifying an XML document containing R code

Manipulate XML catalog contents

Get the version of the libxml library.

Transform between XML representations

dtdValidElement

Determines whether an XML tag is valid within another.

newXMLNamespace

Add a namespace definition to an XML node

Create a copy of an internal XML document or node

Create internal XML node or document object

Get parent node of XMLInternalNode or ancestor nodes

xmlEventHandler

Default handlers for the SAX-style event XML parser

Converts non-XML node objects to XMLTextNode objects

Compute name of URL relative to a base URL

print.XMLAttributeDef

Methods for displaying XML objects

Classes for working with XML Schema

Apply function to nodes in an XML tree/DOM.

xmlParserContextFunction

Identifies function as expecting an xmlParserContext argument

Extract or set the contents of a leaf XML node

Look up an element via the XML catalog mechanism

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

Gets the sub-nodes within an XMLNode object.

Add children to an XML node

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

startElement.SAX

Generic Methods for SAX callbacks

Classes to describe an XML node object.

Release the specified object and clean up its memory usage

Determine the number of children in an XMLNode object.

Find matching nodes in an internal XML tree/DOM

Read a Document Type Definition (DTD)

Convert an XML node/document to a more R-like list

xmlElementSummary

Frequency table of names of elements and attributes in XML content

xmlStructuredStop

Condition/error handler functions for XML parsing

XML Event/Callback element-wise Parser

Add a node to a tree

Get XML/HTML document parse errors

Add child nodes to an XML node

xmlAttributeType

The type of an XML attribute for element from the DTD

toString.XMLNode

Creates string representation of XML node

Extraces the tag name of an XMLNode object.

Convenience accessors for the children of XMLNode objects.

Get the names of an XML nodes children.

processXInclude

Perform the XInclude substitutions

xmlElementsByTagName

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

The number of sub-elements within an XML node.

xmlNamespaceDefinitions

Get definitions of any namespaces defined in this XML node

Class to describe a reference to an XML DTD

Accessors for name of XML document

XMLInternalDocument-class

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

Parse a URI string into its elements

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

Output internal XML Tree

xmlFlatListTree

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

Retrieve the namespace value of an XML node.

Get the top-level XML node.

Terminate an XML parser

A virtual base class defining methods for SAX parsing

Constructor for DTD reference

Determines the encoding for an XML document or node

Get the list of attributes of an XML node.

Applies a function to each of the children of an XMLNode

Manipulate sibling XML nodes

xmlContainsEntity

Checks if an entity is defined within a DTD.

Get the value of an attribute in an XML node

An internal, updatable DOM object for building XML trees

Determines which native XML parsers are being used.

genericSAXHandlers

SAX generic callback handler list

xmlOutputBuffer

XML output streams

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

xmlSchemaValidate

Validate an XML document relative to an XML schema

Create an XML node

Example XML Event Parser Handler Functions

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

dtdElementValidEntry

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