getEncoding function

Determines the encoding for an XML document or node

This function and its methods are intended to return the encoding of n XML . It is similar to Encoding but currently restricted to XML nodes and documents.

getEncoding(obj, ...)

Arguments

• obj: the object whose encoding is being queried.
• ...: any additional parameters which can be customized by the methods.

Returns

A character vector of length 1 giving the encoding of the XML document.

Author(s)

Duncan Temple Lang

Examples

f = system.file("exampleData", "charts.svg", package = "XML")
  doc = xmlParse(f)
  getEncoding(doc)
  n = getNodeSet(doc, "//g/text")[[1]]
  getEncoding(n)

  f = system.file("exampleData", "iTunes.plist", package = "XML")
  doc = xmlParse(f)
  getEncoding(doc)