On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In particular try this: > >> Lines <- ' > + <root> > + <data loc="1"> > + <val i="t1"> 22 </val> > + <val i="t2"> 45 </val> > + </data> > + <data loc="2"> > + <val i="t1"> 44 </val> > + <val i="t2"> 11 </val> > + </data> > + </root> > + ' >> >> library(XML) >> doc <- xmlTreeParse(Lines, asText = TRUE, trim = TRUE, useInternalNodes = >> TRUE) >> root <- xmlRoot(doc) >> >> data1 <- getNodeSet(root, "//data")[[1]] >> xmlValue(getNodeSet(data1, "//val")[[1]]) > [1] " 22 "
The last line should be the following (although in this case it actually gives the same answer): xmlValue(getNodeSet(data1, "val")[[1]]) >> > > > On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On 7 September 2008 at 10:22, Antje wrote: >> | I try to rewrite some Java-code with R. It deals with reading XML files. I >> [...] >> | Now, I'd like to do something like this in R. Most important would be to >> | retrieve a node just by its name, not by the whole path. How is it >> possible? >> | >> | Can anybody help me with this issue? >> >> Have you looked at the "XML" package for R ? >> >> Dirk >> >> -- >> Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > ______________________________________________ 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.
