I would appreciate assistance doing in R what a colleague has done in python. Unfortunately (for me), I have almost no experience with either python or xml.
Within an xml file there is <CreaDate>20120627</CreaDate><CreaTime>07322600</CreaTime> and I need to extract those two values, 20120627 and 07322600 Here is the short python function. Even without knowing python, it's conceptually clear what it does. I would like to do the same in R. def readxmldate(xmlfile): tree = ET.parse(xmlfile) root = tree.getroot() for lev1 in root.findall('Esri'): xdate = lev1.find('CreaDate').text xtime = lev1.find('CreaTime').text return xdate, xtime Thanks in advance -Don -- Don MacQueen Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 7000 East Ave., L-627 Livermore, CA 94550 925-423-1062 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.