asXMLNode function

Converts non-XML node objects to XMLTextNode objects

This function is used to convert S objects that are not already XMLNode objects into objects of that class. Specifically, it treats the object as a string and creates an XMLTextNode object.

Also, there is a method for converting an XMLInternalNode - the C-level libxml representation of a node - to an explicit R-only object which contains the R values of the data in the internal node.

asXMLNode(x)

Arguments

• x: the object to be converted to an XMLNode object. This is typically alread an object that inherits from XMLNode

  or a string.

Returns

An object of class XMLNode.

References

https://www.w3.org/XML/, http://www.jclark.com/xml/, https://www.omegahat.net

Author(s)

Duncan Temple Lang

See Also

xmlNode

xmlTextNode

Examples

# creates an XMLTextNode.
 asXMLNode("a text node")

   # unaltered.
 asXMLNode(xmlNode("p"))