[R] Custom XML Readers

Duncan Temple Lang duncan at wald.ucdavis.edu
Sun Dec 25 15:46:42 CET 2011


In addition to the general tools of the XML package,
I also had code that read documents with a similar structure
to the ones Andy illustrated. I put them and simple examples
of using them at the bottom of

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

page.

  D.

On 12/23/11 5:50 PM, Ben Tupper wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
>> Thanks,
>> Andy
>>
>>
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