replaceNodeWithChildren function

Replace an XML node with it child nodes

This function can be used to flatten parts of an XML tree. This takes a node and removes itself from the tree, but places its kids in it place.

replaceNodeWithChildren(node)

Arguments

• node: an XMLInternalNode object

Returns

NULL. The purpose of this function is to modify the internal document.

References

libxml2 documentation.

Author(s)

Duncan Temple Lang

Examples

doc = xmlParse('<doc>
                 <page>
                  <p>A</p>
                  <p>B</p>
                  <p>C</p>
                 </page>
                 <page>
                  <p>D</p>
                  <p>E</p>
                  <p>F</p>
                 </page>
                </doc>')

pages = getNodeSet(doc, "//page")
invisible(lapply(pages, replaceNodeWithChildren))
doc