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XML (version 2.8-1)

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

2.8-1

License

BSD

Maintainer

Duncan Lang

Last Published

March 21st, 2010

Functions in XML (2.8-1)

xmlContainsEntity

Checks if an entity is defined within a DTD.
ensureNamespace

Ensure that the node has a definition for particular XML namespaces
parseDTD

Read a Document Type Definition (DTD)
XMLInternalDocument-class

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

SAX generic callback handler list
Doctype-class

Class to describe a reference to an XML DTD
toString.XMLNode

Creates string representation of XML node
print.XMLAttributeDef

Methods for displaying XML objects
xmlEventHandler

Default handlers for the SAX-style event XML parser
[<-.XMLNode

Assign sub-nodes to an XML node
xmlClone

Create a copy of an internal XML document or node
getSibling

Manipulate sibling XML nodes
makeClassTemplate

Create S4 class definition based on XML node(s)
dtdIsAttribute

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

Get XML/HTML document parse errors
[.XMLNode

Convenience accessors for the children of XMLNode objects.
xmlEventParse

XML Event/Callback element-wise Parser
xmlParseDoc

Parse an XML document with options controlling the parser.
readHTMLTable

Read data from one or more HTML tables
getRelativeURL

Compute name of URL relative to a base URL
xmlFlatListTree

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

Get the value of an attribute in an XML node
startElement.SAX

Generic Methods for SAX callbacks
xmlStructuredStop

Condition/error handler functions for XML parsing
xmlChildren

Gets the sub-nodes within an XMLNode object.
coerceNodes

Transform between XML representations
xmlElementsByTagName

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

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

Add a node to a tree
supportsExpat

Determines which native XML parsers are being used.
free

Release the specified object and clean up its memory usage
getEncoding

Determines the encoding for an XML document or node
xmlToList

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

Extract data from a simple XML document
xmlDOMApply

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

Get parent node of XMLInternalNode or ancestor nodes
libxmlVersion

Query the version and available features of the libxml library.
xmlSchemaValidate

Validate an XML document relative to an XML schema
dtdValidElement

Determines whether an XML tag is valid within another.
toHTML

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

Create an XML node
xmlTree

An internal, updatable DOM object for building XML trees
xmlRoot

Get the top-level XML node.
newXMLDoc

Create internal XML node or document object
docName

Accessors for name of XML document
schema-class

Classes for working with XML Schema
saveXML

Output internal XML Tree
xmlAttributeType

The type of an XML attribute for element from the DTD
XMLNode-class

Classes to describe an XML node object.
xmlNamespace

Retrieve the namespace value of an XML node.
xmlSize

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

Get definitions of any namespaces defined in this XML node
length.XMLNode

Determine the number of children in an XMLNode object.
dtdElementValidEntry

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

Converts non-XML node objects to XMLTextNode objects
xmlParserContextFunction

Identifies function as expecting an xmlParserContext argument
xmlHandler

Example XML Event Parser Handler Functions
asXMLTreeNode

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

Look up an element via the XML catalog mechanism
xmlAttrs

Get the list of attributes of an XML node.
xmlName

Extraces the tag name of an XMLNode object.
isXMLString

Facilities for working with XML strings
xmlTreeParse

XML Parser
Doctype

Constructor for DTD reference
compareXMLDocs

Indicate differences between two XML documents
dtdElement

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

Find the XInclude node associated with an XML node
append.xmlNode

Add children to an XML node
newXMLNamespace

Add a namespace definition to an XML node
removeXMLNamespaces

Remove namespace definitions from a XML node or document
processXInclude

Perform the XInclude substitutions
getNodeSet

Find matching nodes in an internal XML tree/DOM
xmlSource

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

Extract or set the contents of a leaf XML node
SAXState-class

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

Simple classes for identifying an XML document containing R code
addChildren

Add child nodes to an XML node
catalogLoad

Manipulate XML catalog contents
names.XMLNode

Get the names of an XML nodes children.
xmlElementSummary

Frequency table of names of elements and attributes in XML content
getLineNumber

Determine the line number of an (internal) XML node
parseURI

Parse a URI string into its elements
xmlOutputBuffer

XML output streams
xmlStopParser

Terminate an XML parser
xmlToS4

General mechanism for mapping an XML node to an S4 object