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write_xml

Write XML or HTML to disk.

Description

This writes out both XML and normalised HTML. The default behavior will output the same format which was read. If you want to force output pass option = "as_xml" or option = "as_html" respectively.

Usage

write_xml(x, file, ...)

## S3 method for class 'xml_document'
write_xml(x, file, ..., options = "format", encoding = "UTF-8")

write_html(x, file, ...)

## S3 method for class 'xml_document'
write_html(x, file, ..., options = "format", encoding = "UTF-8")

Arguments

`x`	A document or node to write to disk. It's not possible to save nodesets containing more than one node.
`file`	Path to file or connection to write to.
`...`	additional arguments passed to methods.
`options`	default: ‘format’. Zero or more of format Format output no_declaration Drop the XML declaration no_empty_tags Remove empty tags no_xhtml Disable XHTML1 rules require_xhtml Force XHTML rules as_xml Force XML output as_html Force HTML output format_whitespace Format with non-significant whitespace
`encoding`	The character encoding to use in the document. The default encoding is ‘UTF-8’. Available encodings are specified at http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-encoding.html#xmlCharEncoding.

Examples

h <- read_html("<p>Hi!</p>")

tmp <- tempfile(fileext = ".xml")
write_xml(h, tmp, options = "format")
readLines(tmp)

# write formatted HTML output
write_html(h, tmp, options = "format")
readLines(tmp)

xml2

Parse XML

v1.3.2

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

Hadley Wickham [aut], Jim Hester [aut, cre], Jeroen Ooms [aut], RStudio [cph], R Foundation [ctb] (Copy of R-project homepage cached as example)

Initial release