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asXMLNode

Converts non-XML node objects to XMLTextNode objects

Description

This function is used to convert S objects that are not already XMLNode objects into objects of that class. Specifically, it treats the object as a string and creates an XMLTextNode object.

Also, there is a method for converting an XMLInternalNode - the C-level libxml representation of a node - to an explicit R-only object which contains the R values of the data in the internal node.

Usage

asXMLNode(x)

Arguments

`x`	the object to be converted to an `XMLNode` object. This is typically alread an object that inherits from `XMLNode` or a string.

Value

An object of class XMLNode.

Author(s)

Duncan Temple Lang

References

http://www.w3.org/XML/, http://www.jclark.com/xml/, http://www.omegahat.net

Examples

# creates an XMLTextNode.
 asXMLNode("a text node")

   # unaltered.
 asXMLNode(xmlNode("p"))

XML

Tools for Parsing and Generating XML Within R and S-Plus

v3.99-0.10

BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE

Authors

CRAN Team [ctb, cre] (de facto maintainer since 2013), Duncan Temple Lang [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0159-1546>), Tomas Kalibera [ctb]

Initial release