xml2 (version 1.3.3)

write_xml: Write XML or HTML to disk.

Description

This writes out both XML and normalised HTML. The default behavior will output the same format which was read. If you want to force output pass option = "as_xml" or option = "as_html" respectively.

Usage

write_xml(x, file, ...)
# S3 method for xml_document
write_xml(x, file, ..., options = "format", encoding = "UTF-8")
write_html(x, file, ...)
# S3 method for xml_document
write_html(x, file, ..., options = "format", encoding = "UTF-8")

Arguments

x

A document or node to write to disk. It's not possible to save nodesets containing more than one node.

file

Path to file or connection to write to.

...

additional arguments passed to methods.

options

default: ‘format’. Zero or more of

format

Format output

no_declaration

Drop the XML declaration

no_empty_tags

Remove empty tags

no_xhtml

Disable XHTML1 rules

require_xhtml

Force XHTML1 rules

as_xml

Force XML output

as_html

Force HTML output

format_whitespace

Format with non-significant whitespace

encoding

The character encoding to use in the document. The default encoding is ‘UTF-8’. Available encodings are specified at http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-encoding.html#xmlCharEncoding.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
h <- read_html("<p>Hi!</p>")

tmp <- tempfile(fileext = ".xml")
write_xml(h, tmp, options = "format")
readLines(tmp)

# write formatted HTML output
write_html(h, tmp, options = "format")
readLines(tmp)
# }

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