xml_to_list: Converting XML documents to lists
In xmlconvert: Comfortably Converting XML Documents to Dataframes and Vice Versa

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

View source: R/xml_convert.r

Converts XML documents to lists. Uses the as_list() function from the xml2 package but improves its output. As an effect, numbers, dates and times are converted correctly, unnecessary nested sub-lists with only element are avoided, and empty XML nodes can be removed altogether. This makes the resulting list look cleaner and better structured.

xml_to_list(
  xml,
  cleanup = TRUE,
  convert.types = TRUE,
  dec = ".",
  thsd = ",",
  num.replace = "",
  datetime.formats = NULL
)

`xml`	XML document to be converted. Can be read in from a file using `xml2`'s `read_xml()` function.
`cleanup`	If `TRUE` (default) empty XML nodes (with no sub-nodes or values) will not appear in the list.
`convert.types`	If `TRUE` (default) `xml_to_list()` will try to infer the data type of value elements in the XML. If `FALSE`, all value elements in the resulting list will be of type `character`.
`dec`	Decimal separator used in numbers.
`thsd`	Thousands separator used in numbers.
`num.replace`	An optional string that will be removed before `xml_to_list()` tries to convert values to numbers. Can be used, for example, to remove currency symbols or other measurement units from values that are actually numerical.
`datetime.formats`	A vector of date and/or time formats that will be used to recognize the respective datatypes. Formats will need to be written in the general notation used by `strftime()` and other standard R functions.

A list object representing the XML document.

1 2	xml <- xml2::read_xml(system.file("customers.xml", package="xmlconvert")) xml.list <- xml_to_list(xml, num.replace="USD", datetime.formats = "%Y-%m-%d")#'