Thanks! -- Don MacQueen
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 7000 East Ave., L-627 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 >>> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. > >______________________________________________ >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. ______________________________________________ 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.