newXMLNamespace: Add a namespace definition to an XML node

Description

This function, and associated methods, define a name space prefix = URI combination for the given XML node. It can also optionally make this name space the default namespace for the node.

Usage

newXMLNamespace(node, namespace, prefix = names(namespace), set = FALSE)

Value

An name space definition object whose class corresponds to the type of XML node given in node.

Arguments

node: the XML node for which the name space is to be defined.
namespace: the namespace(s). This can be a simple character vector giving the URI, a named character vector giving the prefix = URI pairs, with the prefixes being the names of the character vector, or one or more (a list) of XMLNamespace objects, e.g. returned from a call to xmlNamespaceDefinitions
prefix: the prefixes to be associated with the URIs given in namespace.
set: a logical value indicating whether to set the namespace for this node to this newly created name space definition.

Author

Duncan Temple Lang

References

~put references to the literature/web site here ~

Examples

Run this code

 foo = newXMLNode("foo")
 ns = newXMLNamespace(foo, "http://www.r-project.org", "r")
 as(ns, "character")

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