fxml_hasSiblings {flatxml}

Siblings of an XML element

Description

Determines if an XML element has any siblings, i.e. elements on the same hierarchical level.

Usage

fxml_hasSiblings(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

TRUE, if the the XML element with ID elemid has at least one sibling, FALSE otherwise.

Author(s)

Joachim Zuckarelli [e-mail]

#' @seealso fxml_numSiblings, fxml_getSiblings

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)

# Check if XML element with ID 4 (xml.dataframe$elemid. ==  4) has any siblings
# (elements on the same hierarchy level)
fxml_hasSiblings(xml.dataframe, 4)