[R] XML - get node by name

[Gabor Grothendieck]

In particular try this:

> Lines <- '
+ <root>
+  <data loc="1">
+    <val i="t1"> 22 </val>
+    <val i="t2"> 45 </val>
+  </data>
+  <data loc="2">
+    <val i="t1"> 44 </val>
+    <val i="t2"> 11 </val>
+  </data>
+ </root>
+ '
>
> library(XML)
> doc <- xmlTreeParse(Lines, asText = TRUE, trim = TRUE, useInternalNodes = TRUE)
> root <- xmlRoot(doc)
>
> data1 <- getNodeSet(root, "//data")[[1]]
> xmlValue(getNodeSet(data1, "//val")[[1]])
[1] " 22 "
>


On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 7 September 2008 at 10:22, Antje wrote:
> | I try to rewrite some Java-code with R. It deals with reading XML files. I
> [...]
> | Now, I'd like to do something like this in R. Most important would be to
> | retrieve a node just by its name, not by the whole path. How is it possible?
> |
> | Can anybody help me with this issue?
>
> Have you looked at the "XML" package for R ?
>
> Dirk
>
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