xmlNode                 package:XML                 R Documentation

_C_r_e_a_t_e _a_n _X_M_L _n_o_d_e

_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     These functions allow one to create XML nodes as are created in C
     code when reading XML documents. Trees of XML nodes can be
     constructed and  integrated with other trees generated manually or
     with via the parser.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     xmlNode(name, ..., attrs=NULL, namespace="")
     xmlTextNode(value, namespace="")
     xmlPINode(sys, value, namespace="")
     xmlCDataNode(...)
     xmlCommentNode(text)

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

    name: The tag or element name of the XML node. This is what appears
          in the elements as `<name> .. </name>'

     ...: The children nodes of this XML node. These can be objects of
          class `XMLNode' or arbitrary values that will be converted to
          a string to form an `XMLTextNode' object.

   attrs: A named character vector giving the  name, value pairs of
          attributes for this XML node.

   value: This is the text that is to be used when forming an
          `XMLTextNode'.

namespace: The XML namespace identifier for this node.

     sys: the name of the system for which the processing instruction
          is targeted. This is the value that appears in the `<?sys
          value?>'

    text: character string giving the contents of the comment.

_V_a_l_u_e:

     An object of class `XMLNode'. In the case of `xmlTextNode', this
     also inherits from `XMLTextNode'. The fields or slots that objects
     of these classes have include `name', `attributes', `children' and
     `namespace'. However, one should  the accessor functions
     `xmlName', `xmlAttrs', `xmlChildren' and `xmlNamespace'

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Duncan Temple Lang

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     <URL: http://www.w3.org/XML>, <URL: http://www.jclark.com/xml>,
     <URL: http://www.omegahat.org>

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

     `xmlTreeParse' `asXMLNode'

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     a <- xmlNode("arg", attrs = c(default="T"),
                    xmlNode("name", "foo"), xmlNode("defaultValue","1:10"))

