R XML2

Illustrated infographic summarizing: R XML2

R-Project can be used to parse, build and validate XML files. The xml2 R library is the latest xml parsing library and should be used instead of the outdated xml library.

Install dev version from github:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("r-lib/xml2")

Links

Manual: https://rdrr.io/cran/xml2/man/

XML validation techniques - Using xml schema and xslt in R: https://ropensci.org/blog/2017/01/10/xslt-release/

https://www.r-bloggers.com/2017/01/xml2-1-1-1/

Short intro to functions but better to see version 2017/01/10 above: https://www.r-bloggers.com/2016/07/xml2-1-0-0/ - duplicate: https://blog.rstudio.com/2016/07/05/xml2-1-0-0/

xml2 R library doc: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/xml2/xml2.pdf

Switching from XML to xml2: https://gist.github.com/nuest/3ed3b0057713eb4f4d75d11bb62f2d66

Generating xml with minixml: https://coolbutuseless.github.io/2019/09/30/introducing-the-minixml-pac…

 

https://blog.rstudio.com/2015/04/21/xml2/

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40336780/xml-parsing-selective-node…

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