getCategoriesIDs: Get IDs of categories

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

Description

Gets the IDs of categories, stored in the <categories> tag, from an XML tree written according to the XMCDA standard.

Usage

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getCategoriesIDs(tree, mcdaConcept = NULL)

Arguments

tree

Object containing the XMCDA XML tree.

mcdaConcept

A string containing the specific mcdaConcept attribute which should be searched for.

Value

The function returns a list structured as follows:

The first elements contain vectors with the categories' IDs which have been found in each <categories> tag. These elements are named according to the mcdaConcept attribute if it can be found.

status

Either OK if all the <categories> tags could be correctly read, or the description of the error.

Examples

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tree = newXMLDoc()

newXMLNode("xmcda:XMCDA", 
           namespace = c("xsi" = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance", 
           "xmcda" = "http://www.decision-deck.org/2009/XMCDA-2.0.0"), 
           parent=tree)

root<-getNodeSet(tree, "/xmcda:XMCDA")

categories<-newXMLNode("categories", attrs=c(mcdaConcept="classes"), 
                         parent=root[[1]], 
                         namespace=c())

newXMLNode("category", attrs = c(id="c1"), parent=categories, namespace=c())
newXMLNode("category", attrs = c(id="c2"), parent=categories, namespace=c())
newXMLNode("category", attrs = c(id="c3"), parent=categories, namespace=c())

y<-getNodeSet(tree,"//categories")

x<-getCategoriesIDs(y[[1]])

RXMCDA documentation built on May 1, 2019, 10:23 p.m.