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https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2013-April/351504.html On Apr 16, 2013, at 11:49 AM, santiago gil wrote: > Are my emails getting through? > > 2013/4/14 santiago gil <sg.c...@gmail.com>: >> Hello all, >> >> I have a problem with the way attributes are dealt with in the >> function xmlToList(), and I haven't been able to figure it out for >> days now. >> >> Say I have a document (produced by nmap) like this: >> >>> mydoc <- '<host starttime="1365204834" endtime="1365205860"><status >>> state="up" reason="echo-reply" reason_ttl="127"/> >> <address addr="XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX" addrtype="ipv4"/> >> <ports><port protocol="tcp" portid="135"><state state="open" >> reason="syn-ack" reason_ttl="127"/><service name="msrpc" >> product="Microsoft Windows RPC" ostype="Windows" method="probed" >> conf="10"><cpe>cpe:/o:microsoft:windows</cpe></service></port> >> <port protocol="tcp" portid="139"><state state="open" >> reason="syn-ack" reason_ttl="127"/><service name="netbios-ssn" >> method="probed" conf="10"/></port> >> </ports> >> <times srtt="647" rttvar="71" to="100000"/> >> </host>' >> >> I want to store this as a list of lists, so I do: >> >> mytree<-xmlTreeParse(mydoc) >> myroot<-xmlRoot(mytree) >> mylist<-xmlToList(myroot) >> >> Now my problem is that when I want to fetch the attributes of the >> services running of each port, the behavior is not consistent: >> >>> mylist[["ports"]][[1]][["service"]]$.attrs["name"] >> name >> "msrpc" >>> mylist[["ports"]][[2]][["service"]]$.attrs["name"] >> Error in trash_list[["ports"]][[2]][["service"]]$.attrs : >> $ operator is invalid for atomic vectors >> >> I understand that the way they are dfined in the documnt is not the >> same, but I think there still should be a consistent behavior. I've >> tried many combination of parameters for xmlTreeParse() but nothing >> has helped me. I can't find a way to call up the name of the service >> consistently regardless of whether the node has children or not. Any >> tips? >> >> All the best, >> >> >> S.G. >> >> -- >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> http://barabasilab.neu.edu/people/gil/ > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://barabasilab.neu.edu/people/gil/ > > ______________________________________________ > 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. David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA ______________________________________________ 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.