as_eml_list: Convert metadata to a 'list'

In delma: Convert 'R Markdown' and 'Quarto' Documents to Ecological Metadata Language

Convert metadata to a list

Description

Takes an object of class xml_document or tibble, and converts it to a list. When converting from an xml_document, this is simply a wrapper for xml2::as_list()

Usage

as_eml_list(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'tbl_lp'
as_eml_list(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'tbl_df'
as_eml_list(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'list'
as_eml_list(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'xml_document'
as_eml_list(x, ...)

Arguments

x	Object to be converted
...	Other arguments, currently ignored

Value

A list, where both the nested structure of the XML/md and the attributes of XML nodes, are preserved.

Examples

source_file <- system.file("extdata", 
                           "bionet_metadata.Rmd",
                           package = "delma")
df <- read_md(source_file)
as_eml_list(df) |> str()

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