Hello again, Another stumble here that is defeating me. I try: a<-readLines(url("http://feeds.feedburner.com/grokin")) t<-XML::xmlTreeParse(a, ignoreBlanks=TRUE, replaceEntities=FALSE, asText=TRUE) elem<- XML::getNodeSet(XML::xmlRoot(t),"/rss/channel/item")[[1]]
And I get: Start tag expected, '<' not found Error: 1: Start tag expected, '<' not found When I modify the second line in "a" to remove the following (just leaving the <rss> tag with its attributes), I do not get the error. I removed: <?xml-stylesheet type=\"text/xsl\" media=\"screen\" href= \"/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl\"?><?xml-stylesheet type=\"text/css\" media= \"screen\" href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css \"?> I would have expected the PI to be totally ignored by default. Have I missed something?? Thanks in advance... Cheers, Adam ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.