xmlToS4: General mechanism for mapping an XML node to an S4 object
In cosmicexplorer/xmlr: Tools for parsing and generating XML within R and S-Plus.

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This generic function and its methods recursively process an XML node and its child nodes ( and theirs and so on) to map the nodes to S4 objects.

This is the run-time function that corresponds to the makeClassTemplate function.

1	xmlToS4(node, obj = new(xmlName(node)), ...)

`node`	the top-level XML node to convert to an S4 object
`obj`	the object whose slots are to be filled from the information in the XML node
`...`	additional parameters for methods

The object obj whose slots have been modified.

Duncan Temple Lang

makeClassTemplate

 txt =
 "<doc><part><name>ABC</name><type>XYZ</type><cost>3.54</cost><status>available</status></part></doc>"
 doc = xmlParse(txt)

 setClass("part", representation(name = "character",
                                 type = "character",
                                 cost = "numeric",
                                 status= "character"))
 xmlToS4(xmlRoot(doc)[["part"]])