XML: readKeyValueDB – R documentation

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readKeyValueDB

Read an XML property-list style document

Description

This function and its methods reads an XML document that is in the format of name-value or key-value pairs made up of a plist and dict nodes, each of which is made up key, and value node pairs. These used to be used for property lists on OS X and can represetn arbitrary data relatively conveniently.

Usage

readKeyValueDB(doc, ...)

Arguments

`doc`	the object containing the data. This can be the name of a file, a parsed XML document or an XML node.
`...`	additional parameters for the methods. One can pass `dropComments` as a logical value to control whether comment nodes are processed or ignored (`TRUE`).

Value

An R object representing the data read from the XML content. This is typically a named list or vector where the names are the keys and the values are collected into an R "container".

Author(s)

Duncan Temple Lang

References

Property lists.

Examples

if(file.exists("/usr/share/hiutil/Stopwords.plist")) {
  o = readKeyValueDB("/usr/share/hiutil/Stopwords.plist")
 }

 if(file.exists("/usr/share/java/Tools/Applet Launcher.app/Contents/Info.plist"))
    javaInfo = readKeyValueDB('/usr/share/java/Tools/Applet Launcher.app/Contents/Info.plist')

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