xmlRoot: Get the top-level XML node.

Description

These are a collection of methods for providing easy access to the top-level XMLNode object resulting from parsing an XML document. They simplify accessing this node in the presence of auxillary information such as DTDs, file name and version information that is returned as part of the parsing.

Usage

xmlRoot(x, skip = TRUE, ...)
# S3 method for XMLDocumentContent
xmlRoot(x, skip = TRUE, ...)
# S3 method for XMLInternalDocument
xmlRoot(x, skip = TRUE, addFinalizer = NA, ...)
# S3 method for HTMLDocument
xmlRoot(x, skip = TRUE, ...)

Value

An object of class XMLNode.

Arguments

x: the object whose root/top-level XML node is to be returned.
skip: a logical value that controls whether DTD nodes and/or XMLComment objects that appear before the “real” top-level node of the document should be ignored (TRUE) or not (FALSE) when returning the root node.
...: arguments that are passed by the generic to the different specialized methods of this generic.
addFinalizer: a logical value or identifier for a C routine that controls whether we register finalizers on the intenal node.

Author

Duncan Temple Lang

References

https://www.w3.org/XML/, http://www.jclark.com/xml/, https://www.omegahat.net

Examples

Run this code

  doc <- xmlTreeParse(system.file("exampleData", "mtcars.xml", package="XML"))
  xmlRoot(doc)
   # Note that we cannot use getSibling () on a regular R-level XMLNode object
   # since we cannot go back up or across the tree from that node, but
   # only down to the children.

    # Using an internal node via xmlParse (== xmlInternalTreeParse())
  doc <- xmlParse(system.file("exampleData", "mtcars.xml", package="XML"))
  n = xmlRoot(doc, skip = FALSE)
     # skip over the DTD and the comment
  d = getSibling(getSibling(n))

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