Hi Andy, On Dec 23, 2011, at 2:51 PM, pl.r...@gmail.com wrote:
> I need to construct a custom XML reader, the files I'm working with are in > funky XML format: > > <str name="author">Paul H</str> > <str name="country">USA</str> > <date name="created_date">2010-02-16</date> > > I want to read the file so it looks like: > > author = Paul H > country = USA > created_date=2010-02-16 > > Does any one know how to go about this problem, or know of good references i > could access? > Have you tried Duncan Temple Lang's XML package for R? It works very well for parsing and building XML formatted data. http://www.omegahat.org/RSXML/ Cheers, Ben > Thanks, > Andy > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Custom-XML-Readers-tp4229614p4229614.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. Ben Tupper Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences 180 McKown Point Rd. P.O. Box 475 West Boothbay Harbor, Maine 04575-0475 http://www.bigelow.org ______________________________________________ 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.