Please consider this:

<Manifest xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" >
<!-- eName       : name of the element.
      eValue       : value of the element. -->

        <OutputFilePath>./XYZ</OutputFilePath>
        <FilesList>
                <File>
                        <FileTypeId>10</FileTypeId>
                        <FilePath>./XYZ/</FilePath>
                        <PatientCharacteristics eName="one" eValue="1"/>
                        <PatientCharacteristics eName="two" eValue="2"/>
                        <PatientCharacteristics eName="three" eValue="3"/>
                </File>
</FilesList>
</Manifest>

I am attempting to use XML package and xpathSApply() to extract, say, the eValue attribute for eName=='0ne' for all <File> nodes that have <FileTypeId>==10.  I try the following, amoung several things:

doc<-xmlInternalTreeParse(Manifest)
Root = xmlRoot(doc)
xpathSApply(Root, "//File[FileTypeId=10]/PatientCharacteristics/[@eName='one']", xmlAttrs)

and it does not work.

Might somebody help me with the syntax here?

Thanks a lot!!
Aaron


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