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supportsExpat

Determines which native XML parsers are being used.

Description

Use of the Gnome libxml and Expat parsers is supported in this R/S XML package, but both need not be used when compiling the package. These functions determine whether each is available in the underlying native code.

Usage

supportsExpat()
supportsLibxml()

Details

One might to use different parsers to test validity of a document in different ways and to get different error messages. Additionally, one parser may be more efficient than the other. These methods allow one to write code in such a way that one parser is preferred and is used if it is available, but the other is used if the first is not available.

Value

Returns TRUE if the corresponding library has been linked into the package.

Author(s)

Duncan Temple Lang

References

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

Examples

# use Expat if possible, otherwise libxml
  fileName <- system.file("exampleData", "mtcars.xml", package="XML")
  xmlEventParse(fileName, useExpat = supportsExpat())

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