drop_tags {mclm}

Drop XML tags from character string

Description

This function takes a character vector and returns a copy from which all XML-like tags have been removed. Moreover, if half_tags_too = TRUE any half tag at the beginning or end of x is also removed.

Usage

drop_tags(x, half_tags_too = TRUE)

Arguments

x

String with XML tag

half_tags_too

Logical. Whether tags with only opening/closing bracket should also be removed.

Details

This function is not XML-aware. It uses a very simple definition of what counts as a tag. More specifically, any character sequence starting with < and ending with > is considered a 'tag'; inside such a tag, between < and >, drop_tags() accepts any sequence of zero or more characters.

Value

Character string

Examples

xml_snippet <- "id='3'/><w pos='Det'>An</w> <w pos='N'>example</w> <w"
drop_tags(xml_snippet)
drop_tags(xml_snippet, half_tags_too = FALSE)