[R] Custom XML Readers

[Ben Tupper]

Hi Andy,

On Dec 23, 2011, at 2:51 PM, pl.rudy at gmail.com wrote:

> I need to construct a custom XML reader, the files I'm working with are in
> funky XML format:
> 
> <str name="author">Paul H</str>
>  <str name="country">USA</str>
>  <date name="created_date">2010-02-16</date>
> 
> I want to read the file so it looks like:
> 
> author = Paul H
> country = USA
> created_date=2010-02-16
> 
> Does any one know how to go about this problem, or know of good references i
> could access?
> 


Have you tried Duncan Temple Lang's XML package for R?  It works very well for parsing and building XML formatted data.

http://www.omegahat.org/RSXML/

Cheers,
Ben



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> Andy
> 
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Ben Tupper
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