XML (version 3.1-1)

isXMLString: Facilities for working with XML strings

Description

These functions and classes are used to represent and parse a string whose content is known to be XML. xml allows us to mark a character vector as containing XML, i.e. of class XMLString.

xmlParseString is a convenience routine for converting an XML string into an XML node/tree.

isXMLString is examines a strings content and heuristically determines whether it is XML.

Usage

isXMLString(str)
xmlParseString(content, doc = NULL, namespaces = RXMLNamespaces, clean = TRUE) 
xml(x)

Value

concept

XML

See Also

xmlParse xmlTreeParse

Examples

isXMLString("a regular string < 20 characters long")
 isXMLString("<a><b>c</b></a>")

 xmlParseString("<a><b>c</b></a>")

  # We can lie!
 isXMLString(xml("foo"))