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

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