xml: Explore XML structure of CWB corpus

In RcppCWB: 'Rcpp' Bindings for the 'Corpus Workbench' ('CWB')

Explore XML structure of CWB corpus

Description

The data format of the Corpus Workbench (CWB) allows nested XML as import data. Auxiliary functions assist detecting whether two structural attributes are nested or at the same level (i.e. defining the same regions).

Usage

s_attr_is_descendent(
  x,
  y,
  corpus,
  registry = Sys.getenv("CORPUS_REGISTRY"),
  sample = NULL
)

s_attr_is_sibling(x, y, corpus, registry = Sys.getenv("CORPUS_REGISTRY"))

s_attr_relationship(x, y, corpus, registry = Sys.getenv("CORPUS_REGISTRY"))

Arguments

x	A structural attribute, stated as length-one character vector.
y	Another structural attribute, stated as length-one character vector.
corpus	A corpus ID (length-one character vector).
registry	The directory with the registry file for the corpus.
sample	An integer vector with a sample number of strucs to evaluate. Evaluating only a sample may be an efficient choice for large corpora. If NULL (default), all strucs are evaluated.

Details

s_attr_is_descendent() will evaluate whether s_attribute x is a child of s_attribute y. The return value is TRUE (a single logical value) if all regions defined by x are within the regions defined by y. If not, FALSE is returned. The return values is also FALSE if all regions of x and y are idential. Attributes will be siblings in this case, and not in an ancestor-sibling relationship.

s_attr_is_sibling() will test whether the regions defined for structural attribute x and structural attribute y are identical. If yes, TRUE is returned, assuming that both attributes are at the same level (siblings). If not, FALSE is returned.

s_attr_relationship() will return 0 if s-attributes x and y are siblings in the sense that they define identical regions. The return value is 0 if x is an ancestor of y and 1 if x is a descencdent of y.

Examples

s_attr_is_descendent("id", "places", corpus = "REUTERS", registry = get_tmp_registry())
s_attr_is_sibling(x = "id", y = "places", corpus = "REUTERS", registry = get_tmp_registry())
s_attr_is_sibling(x = "id", y = "places", corpus = "REUTERS", registry = get_tmp_registry())

RcppCWB documentation built on July 9, 2023, 7:40 p.m.