readXmlFile: Read fisheries XML data format file

In RstoxData: Tools to Read and Manipulate Fisheries Data

Description

Read fisheries XML data format file. Currently supports IMR Biotic version 1 until 3, IMR Echosounder version 1, and IMR Landing version 2 formats at the moment. Streaming XML pull parser can be used to avoid loading the whole XML into memory and it supports ZIP file reading. Please note that the XML file inside the zip file should be using the same name as the zip file itself (e.g. test.xml inside test.zip).

Usage

readXmlFile(
  xmlFilePath,
  stream = TRUE,
  useXsd = NULL,
  usePrefix = NULL,
  verbose = FALSE
)

Arguments

xmlFilePath	full path to the XML file to be read.
stream	a streaming XML pull parser is used if this is set to TRUE. An XML DOM parser is used if this is set to FALSE. Default to TRUE.
useXsd	Specify an xsd object to use. Default to NULL.
usePrefix	Manually specify a namespace prefix. Default to NULL.
verbose	Show verbose output. Default to FALSE.

Value

List of data.table objects containing the "flattened" XML data.

Examples

## Not run: 
# Reading test.xml using XML pull parser
one <- readXmlFile("./test.xml")
# Reading test.xml using XML DOM parser
two <- readXmlFile("./test.xml", stream = FALSE)
# Reading test.xml inside test.zip file
three <- readXmlFile("./test.zip")

## End(Not run)

RstoxData documentation built on July 17, 2021, 5:08 p.m.