get.author {JATSdecoder}

get.author

Description

Extracts author tag information from NISO-JATS coded XML file or text.

Usage

get.author(x, paste = "", short.names = FALSE, letter.convert = FALSE)

Arguments

x

a NISO-JATS coded XML file or text.

paste

if paste!="" author list is collapsed to one cell with seperator specified (e.g. paste=";").

short.names

Logical. If TRUE fully available first names will be reduced to single letter abbreviation.

letter.convert

Logical. If TRUE converts hexadecimal and HTML coded characters to Unicode.

Value

Character vector with the extracted author name/s.

See Also

JATSdecoder for simultaneous extraction of meta-tags, abstract, sectioned text and reference list.