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XML (version 3.6-2)

xmlSearchNs: Find a namespace definition object by searching ancestor nodes

Description

This function allows one to search an XML tree from a particular node and find the namespace definition for a given namespace prefix or URL. This namespace definition can then be used to set it on a node to make it the effective namespace for that node.

Usage

xmlSearchNs(node, ns, asPrefix = TRUE, doc = as(node, "XMLInternalDocument"))

Arguments

node
an XMLInternaElementNode
ns
a character string (vector of length 1). If asPrefix is TRUE, this is the namespace alias/prefix. If asPrefix is FALSE, this is the URL of the namespace definition
asPrefix
a logical value. See ns.
doc
the XML document in which the node(s) are located

Value

  • An object of class XMLNamespaceRef.

References

libxml2

See Also

newXMLNode