heurekaFeed2df: Customizable XML parser for product feeds.

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Description

heurekaFeed2df(doc) create a new datafraame containing the flat structure of the Heureka product feed. It skips problematics tags.

Usage

heurekaFeed2df(doc, xpath = "//SHOPITEM", isXML = TRUE, usewhich = TRUE,
  verbose = TRUE, skipTags = c("PARAM", "DELIVERY"))

Arguments

doc	XML parsed document or string or file
xpath	the xpath to shopitem in the feed
isXML	indicated if doc is parsed XML.
usewhich	is experimental. I looks like function works faster when set to true
verbose	sets debug messages on
skipTags	is a collection of tags which will not be processed. Typically multiplve values in PARAM and DELIVERY

Details

This is a XML parser optimised for Heureka feed. It can replaces XML::xmlTodataframe in all cases when this function fails for some reason. Function allow you to see debug messages and parametrize it's behavior.

Examples

library(XML)
doc <- xmlParse("http://my.eshop.cz/heureka.xml")
df <- heurekaFeed2df(doc)

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