xmlNamespaceDefinitions {XML}R Documentation

Get definitions of any namespaces defined in this XML node

Description

If the given node has any namespace definitions declared within it, i.e. of the form xmlns:myNamespace="http://www.myNS.org", this function provides access to these definitions. While they appear in the XML node in the document as attributes, they are treated differently by the parser and so do not show up in the nodes attributes via xmlAttrs.

Usage

xmlNamespaceDefinitions(x, addNames = TRUE)

Arguments

x the XMLNode object in which to find any namespace definitions
addNames a logical indicating whether to compute the names for the elements in the resulting list. The names are convenient, but one can avoid the (very small) overhead of computing these with this parameter.

Details

Value

A list with as many elements as there are namespace definitions. Each element is an object of class XMLNameSpace, containing fields giving the local identifier, the associated defining URI and a logical value indicating whether the definition is local to this node.

Author(s)

Duncan Temple Lang

References

http://www.w3.org/XML

See Also

xmlTreeParse xmlAttrs xmlGetAttr

Examples

  f = system.file("exampleData", "longitudinalData.xml", package = "XML")
  n = xmlRoot(xmlTreeParse(f))
  xmlNamespaceDefinitions(n)
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