Thanks!
--
Don MacQueen
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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Livermore, CA 94550
925-423-1062
On 12/13/14, 1:22 PM, "Boris Steipe" <boris.ste...@utoronto.ca> wrote:
>Or ...
>
>txt <-
>"<doc><CreaDate>20120627</CreaDate><CreaTime>07322600</CreaTime></doc>"
>
>if (!require(XML)) {
> install.packages("XML")
> library(XML)
>}
>
>
>result <- xmlParse(txt, asText=TRUE)
># or ... result <- xmlParse(your-file-here.xml)
>
>toString.XMLNode(getNodeSet(result,'//CreaDate/text()')[[1]])
>toString.XMLNode(getNodeSet(result,'//CreaTime/text()')[[1]])
>
>
>B.
>
>
>
>
>
>On Dec 13, 2014, at 4:06 PM, Duncan Temple Lang <dtemplel...@ucdavis.edu>
>wrote:
>
>> Hi Don
>>
>> library(XML)
>> readxmldate =
>> function(xmlfile)
>> {
>> doc = xmlParse(xmlfile)
>> xpathSApply(doc, '//Esri/CreaDate | //Esri/CreaTime', xmlValue)
>> }
>>
>> D.
>>
>> On 12/13/14, 12:36 PM, MacQueen, Don wrote:
>>> 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
>>>
>>
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