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getXMLErrors

Get XML/HTML document parse errors

Description

This function is intended to be a convenience for finding all the errors in an XML or HTML document due to being malformed, i.e. missing quotes on attributes, non-terminated elements/nodes, incorrectly terminated nodes, missing entities, etc. The document is parsed and a list of the errors is returned along with information about the file, line and column number.

Usage

getXMLErrors(filename, parse = xmlParse, ...)

Arguments

`filename`	the identifier for the document to be parsed, one of a local file name, a URL or the XML/HTML content itself
`parse`	the function to use to parse the document, usually either `xmlTreeParse` or `htmlTreeParse`.
`...`	additional arguments passed to the function given by `parse`

Value

A list of S3-style XMLError objects.

Author(s)

Duncan Temple Lang

References

libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org)

Examples

# Get the "errors" in the HTML that was generated from this Rd file
  getXMLErrors(system.file("html", "getXMLErrors.html", package = "XML"))

## Not run: 
  getXMLErrors("http://www.omegahat.net/index.html")

## End(Not run)

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