XiMpLe (version 0.03-21)

XMLNode: Constructor function for XiMpLe.node objects

Description

Can be used to create XML nodes.

Usage

XMLNode(name, ..., attrs = NULL, namespace = "",
    namespaceDefinitions = NULL, .children = list(...))
  is.XiMpLe.node(x)

Arguments

name

Character string, the tag name.

...

Optional children for the tag. Must be either objects of class XiMpLe.node or character strings, which are treated as simple text values. If this is empty, the tag will be treated as an empty tag. To force a closing tag, supply an empty string, i.

attrs

An optional named list of attributes.

namespace

Currently ignored.

namespaceDefinitions

Currently ignored.

.children

Alternative way of specifying children, if you have them already as a list.

x

An arbitrary R object.

Value

• An object of class XiMpLe.node.

Details

To generate a CDATA node, set name="![CDATA[", to create a comment, set name="!--".

See Also

XMLTree, pasteXML

Examples

sample.XML.node <- XMLNode("a",
  attrs=list(href="http://example.com", target="_blank"),
  .children="klick here!")