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XML (version 1.7-2)

xmlAttrs: Get the list of attributes of an XML node.

Description

This returns a named character vector giving the name-value pairs of attributes of an XMLNode object which is part of an XML document.

Usage

xmlAttrs(node, ...)

Arguments

node
The XMLNode object whose attributes are to be extracted.
...
additional arguments for the specific methods.

Value

  • A named character vector, where the names are the attribute names and the elements are the corresponding values. This corresponds to the (attr, "value") pairs in the XML tag

References

http://www.w3.org

See Also

xmlChildren, xmlSize, xmlName

Examples

Run this code
fileName <- system.file("exampleData", "mtcars.xml", package="XML") 
 doc <- xmlTreeParse(fileName)

 xmlAttrs(doc$doc$children[["dataset"]])

 xmlAttrs(doc$doc$children[["dataset"]][["variables"]])

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