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startElement.SAX: Generic Methods for SAX callbacks

Description

This is a collection of generic functions for which one can write methods so that they are called in repsonse to different SAX events. The idea is that one defines methods for different classes of the .state argument and dispatch to different methods based on that argument. The functions represent the different SAX events.

Usage

startElement.SAX(name, atts, .state = NULL)
endElement.SAX(name, .state = NULL)
comment.SAX(content, .state = NULL)
processingInstruction.SAX(target, content, .state = NULL)
text.SAX(content, .state = NULL)
entityDeclaration.SAX(name, base, sysId, publicId, notationName,  .state = NULL)
.InitSAXMethods(where = "package:XML")

Arguments

name
the name of the XML element or entity being declared
atts
named character vector of XML attributes
content
the value/string in the processing instruction or comment
target
the target of the processing instruction, e.g. the R in
base
x
sysId
the system identifier for this entity
publicId
the public identifier for the entity
notationName
name of the notation specification
.state
the state object on which the user-defined methods should dispatch.
where
the package in which the class and method definitions should be defined. This is almost always unspecified.

Value

Each method should return the (potentially modified) state value.

References

http://www.w3.org/XML, http://www.xmlsoft.org

See Also

xmlEventParse