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xmlSize

The number of sub-elements within an XML node.

Description

XML elements can contain other, nested sub-elements. This generic function determines the number of such elements within a specified node. It applies to an object of class XMLNode or XMLDocument.

Usage

xmlSize(obj)

Arguments

obj

An an object of class XMLNode or XMLDocument.

Value

an integer which is the length of the value from xmlChildren.

Author(s)

Duncan Temple Lang

References

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

Examples

fileName <- system.file("exampleData", "mtcars.xml", package="XML") 
  doc <- xmlTreeParse(fileName)
  xmlSize(doc)
  xmlSize(doc$doc$children[["dataset"]][["variables"]])

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