| xmlElementSummary {XML} | R Documentation |
This function is used to get an understanding of the use of element and attribute names in an XML document. It uses a collection of handler functions to gather the information via a SAX-style parser. The distribution of attribute names is done within each "type" of element (i.e. element name)
xmlElementSummary(url, handlers = xmlElementSummaryHandlers(url))
url |
the source of the XML content, e.g. a file, a URL, a compressed file, or a character string |
handlers |
the list of handler functions used to collect the
information. These are passed to the function
|
A list with two elements
nodeCounts |
a named vector of counts where the names are the (XML namespace qualified) element names in the XML content |
attributes |
a list with as many elements as there are elements
in the |
Duncan Temple Lang
xmlElementSummary(system.file("exampleData", "eurofxref-hist.xml.gz", package = "XML"))