fxml_getElement {flatxml}R Documentation

Handling flat XML files

Description

Returns the element name of an XML element.

Usage

fxml_getElement(xmlflat.df, elemid)

Arguments

xmlflat.df

A flat XML dataframe created with fxml_importXMLFlat.

elemid

The ID of the XML element. The ID is the value of the elemid. field in the flat XML dataframe.

Value

Name of the element identified by the ID (xmlflat.df$elemid.) elemid.

Author(s)

Joachim Zuckarelli joachim@zuckarelli.de

See Also

fxml_getUniqueElements

Examples

# Load example file with population data from United Nations Statistics Division
# and create flat dataframe
example <- system.file("worldpopulation.xml", package="flatxml")
xml.dataframe <- fxml_importXMLFlat(example)

# Get the XML element with ID 3 (xml.dataframe$elemid. ==  3)
fxml_getElement(xml.dataframe, 3)
[Package flatxml version 0.1.1 Index]