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XML (version 3.99-0.24)

Tools for Parsing and Generating XML Within R and S-Plus

Description

Many approaches for both reading and creating XML (and HTML) documents, both local and accessible via HTTP or FTP. Also offers access to an 'XPath' "interpreter".

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install.packages('XML')

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3.99-0.24

License

BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE

Maintainer

Ivan Krylov

Last Published

August 21st, 2026

Functions in XML (3.99-0.24)

genericSAXHandlers

SAX generic callback handler list
free

Release the specified object and clean up its memory usage
getChildrenStrings

Get the individual
findXInclude

Find the XInclude node associated with an XML node
getEncoding

Determines the encoding for an XML document or node
getLineNumber

Determine the location - file & line number of an (internal) XML node
docName

Accessors for name of XML document
getHTMLLinks

Get links or names of external files in HTML document
getNodeSet

Find matching nodes in an internal XML tree/DOM
ensureNamespace

Ensure that the node has a definition for particular XML namespaces
libxmlVersion

Query the version and available features of the libxml library.
getXIncludes

Find the documents that are XInclude'd in an XML document
length.XMLNode

Determine the number of children in an XMLNode object.
isXMLString

Facilities for working with XML strings
makeClassTemplate

Create S4 class definition based on XML node(s)
getXMLErrors

Get XML/HTML document parse errors
names.XMLNode

Get the names of an XML nodes children.
newXMLNamespace

Add a namespace definition to an XML node
newXMLDoc

Create internal XML node or document object
getRelativeURL

Compute name of URL relative to a base URL
replaceNodeWithChildren

Replace an XML node with it child nodes
readSolrDoc

Read the data from a Solr document
parseURI

Parse a URI string into its elements
parseXMLAndAdd

Parse XML content and add it to a node
processXInclude

Perform the XInclude substitutions
readHTMLList

Read data in an HTML list or all lists in a document
readHTMLTable

Read data from one or more HTML tables
removeXMLNamespaces

Remove namespace definitions from a XML node or document
readKeyValueDB

Read an XML property-list style document
print.XMLAttributeDef

Methods for displaying XML objects
xmlApply

Applies a function to each of the children of an XMLNode
xmlAttributeType

The type of an XML attribute for element from the DTD
toHTML

Create an HTML representation of the given R object, using internal C-level nodes
xmlCleanNamespaces

Remove redundant namespaces on an XML document
xmlElementsByTagName

Retrieve the children of an XML node with a specific tag name
setXMLNamespace

Set the name space on a node
toString.XMLNode

Creates string representation of XML node
xmlClone

Create a copy of an internal XML document or node
supportsExpat

Determines which native XML parsers are being used.
schema-class

Classes for working with XML Schema
xmlRoot

Get the top-level XML node.
xmlEventHandler

Default handlers for the SAX-style event XML parser
xmlParent

Get parent node of XMLInternalNode or ancestor nodes
xmlHandler

Example XML Event Parser Handler Functions
xmlNode

Create an XML node
xmlChildren

Gets the sub-nodes within an XMLNode object.
xmlParserContextFunction

Identifies function as expecting an xmlParserContext argument
xmlAttrs

Get the list of attributes of an XML node.
xmlName

Extraces the tag name of an XMLNode object.
xmlParseDoc

Parse an XML document with options controlling the parser.
xmlSerializeHook

Functions that help serialize and deserialize XML internal objects
xmlSearchNs

Find a namespace definition object by searching ancestor nodes
xmlHashTree

Constructors for trees stored as flat list of nodes with information about parents and children.
xmlNamespaceDefinitions

Get definitions of any namespaces defined in this XML node
xmlNamespace

Retrieve the namespace value of an XML node.
xmlToList

Convert an XML node/document to a more R-like list
saveXML

Output internal XML Tree
xmlToS4

General mechanism for mapping an XML node to an S4 object
xmlDOMApply

Apply function to nodes in an XML tree/DOM.
xmlSchemaValidate

Validate an XML document relative to an XML schema
xmlStopParser

Terminate an XML parser
xmlEventParse

XML Event/Callback element-wise Parser
xmlTree

An internal, updatable DOM object for building XML trees
xmlValue

Extract or set the contents of a leaf XML node
xmlElementSummary

Frequency table of names of elements and attributes in XML content
xmlTreeParse

XML Parser
xmlGetAttr

Get the value of an attribute in an XML node
xmlSize

The number of sub-elements within an XML node.
xmlToDataFrame

Extract data from a simple XML document
xmlOutputBuffer

XML output streams
xmlSource

Source the R code, examples, etc. from an XML document
xmlStructuredStop

Condition/error handler functions for XML parsing
[.XMLNode

Convenience accessors for the children of XMLNode objects.
Doctype

Constructor for DTD reference
addNode

Add a node to a tree
XML-defunct

XMLInternalDocument-class

Class to represent reference to C-level data structure for an XML document
SAXState-class

A virtual base class defining methods for SAX parsing
Doctype-class

Class to describe a reference to an XML DTD
startElement.SAX

Generic Methods for SAX callbacks
[<-.XMLNode

Assign sub-nodes to an XML node
asXMLTreeNode

Convert a regular XML node to one for use in a "flat" tree
XMLNode-class

Classes to describe an XML node object.
catalogResolve

Look up an element via the XML catalog mechanism
compareXMLDocs

Indicate differences between two XML documents
XMLCodeFile-class

Simple classes for identifying an XML document containing R code
asXMLNode

Converts non-XML node objects to XMLTextNode objects
XMLAttributes-class

Class "XMLAttributes"
coerceNodes

Transform between XML representations
getSibling

Manipulate sibling XML nodes
catalogLoad

Manipulate XML catalog contents
addChildren

Add child nodes to an XML node
append.xmlNode

Add children to an XML node