Hi all, thanks to the people who replied to my question! I finally solved the issue by writing own handlers and using xmlEventParse - which leads to the following problem which is so odd that its probably a bug.
I use several special charachter in my XML-File, e.g. umlauts or ° or µ - but no matter how I encode my XML (UTF or ISO) or I escape these characters xmlEventParse always stops parsing after the first umlaut and pretends to have more than one node even if there is really just one! Example: <locations>abc aböcd abdec</locations> causes two events for locations and produces output in the form of: [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] abc [2,] aböcd abdec Should it be like that? If I remove the umlauts, than everything is fine! If I do the following: <locations>öabc aböcd abdec</locations> the output is [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] öabc aböcd abdec Any suggestions? Thanks in advance and many greetings! Alex ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.