XML (version 1.7-2)

xmlChildren: Gets the sub-nodes within an XMLNode object.

Description

These functions provide access to the children of the given XML node. The simple accessor returns a list of child XMLNode objects within an XMLNode object.

The assignment operator (xmlChildren<-) sets the children of the node to the given value and returns the updated/modified node. No checking is currently done on the type and values of the right hand side. This allows the children of the node to be arbitrary R objects. This can be useful but means that one cannot rely on any structure in a node being present..

Usage

xmlChildren(x)

Arguments

x

an object of class XMLNode.

Value

• A list whose elements are sub-nodes of the user-specified XMLNode. These are also of class XMLNode.

References

http://www.w3.org/XML

See Also

xmlChildren,xmlSize, xmlTreeParse

Examples

fileName <- system.file("exampleData", "mtcars.xml", package="XML")
  doc <- xmlTreeParse(fileName)
  names(xmlChildren(doc$doc$children[["dataset"]]))