XML (version 3.99-0.17)

getXMLErrors: Get XML/HTML document parse errors

Description

This function is intended to be a convenience for finding all the errors in an XML or HTML document due to being malformed, i.e. missing quotes on attributes, non-terminated elements/nodes, incorrectly terminated nodes, missing entities, etc. The document is parsed and a list of the errors is returned along with information about the file, line and column number.

Usage

getXMLErrors(filename, parse = xmlParse, ...)

Value

A list of S3-style XMLError objects.

Arguments

filename

the identifier for the document to be parsed, one of a local file name, a URL or the XML/HTML content itself

parse

the function to use to parse the document, usually either xmlTreeParse or htmlTreeParse.

...

additional arguments passed to the function given by parse

Author

Duncan Temple Lang

References

libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org)

See Also

error argument for xmlTreeParse and related functions.

Examples

     # Get the "errors" in the HTML that was generated from this Rd file
  getXMLErrors(system.file("html", "getXMLErrors.html", package = "XML"))

if (FALSE) {
  getXMLErrors("https://www.omegahat.net/index.html")
}