XML (version 3.1-1)

[.XMLNode: Convenience accessors for the children of XMLNode objects.

Description

These provide a simplified syntax for extracting the children of an XML node.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'XMLNode':
[(x, ..., all = FALSE)
## S3 method for class 'XMLNode':
[[(x, ...)
## S3 method for class 'XMLDocumentContent':
[[(x, ...)

Value

• A list or single element containing the children of the XML node given by obj and identified by ....

References

http://www.w3.org/XML, http://www.omegahat.org/RSXML

See Also

xmlAttrs [<-.XMLNode [[<-.XMLNode

Examples

f = system.file("exampleData", "gnumeric.xml", package = "XML")

 top = xmlRoot(xmlTreeParse(f))

  # Get the first RowInfo element.
 top[["Sheets"]][[1]][["Rows"]][["RowInfo"]]

  # Get a list containing only the first row element
 top[["Sheets"]][[1]][["Rows"]]["RowInfo"]
 top[["Sheets"]][[1]][["Rows"]][1]

  # Get all of the RowInfo elements by position
 top[["Sheets"]][[1]][["Rows"]][1:xmlSize(top[["Sheets"]][[1]][["Rows"]])]

  # But more succinctly and accurately, get all of the RowInfo elements
 top[["Sheets"]][[1]][["Rows"]]["RowInfo", all = TRUE]