eurlex (version 0.4.8)

elx_download_xml: Download XML notice associated with a URL

Description

Downloads an XML notice of a given type associated with a Cellar resource.

Usage

elx_download_xml(
  url,
  file = paste(basename(url), ".xml", sep = ""),
  notice = c("tree", "branch", "object"),
  language_1 = "en",
  language_2 = "fr",
  language_3 = "de",
  mode = "wb"
)

Value

Path of downloaded file (invisibly) if server validates request (http status code has to be 200). For more information about notices, see Cellar documentation.

Arguments

url

A valid url as character vector of length one based on a resource identifier such as CELEX or Cellar URI.

file

A character string with the name where the downloaded file is saved.

notice

The type of notice requested controls what kind of metadata are returned.

language_1

The priority language in which the data will be attempted to be retrieved, in ISO 639 2-char code

language_2

If data not available in language_1, try language_2

language_3

If data not available in language_2, try language_3

mode

A character string specifying the mode with which to write the file. Useful values are "w", "wb" (binary), "a" (append) and "ab".

Details

To retrieve all identifiers associated with a url, use elx_fetch_data(type = "ids").

Examples

# \donttest{
temploc <- paste(tempdir(), "elxnotice.xml", sep = "\\")
elx_download_xml(url = "http://publications.europa.eu/resource/celex/32022D0154",
 file = temploc, notice = "object")
unlink(temploc)
# }