fxml_getAttribute: Attributes of an XML element
In jsugarelli/flatxml: Tools for Working with XML Files as R Dataframes

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Returns the value of a specific attribute of an XML element.

1	fxml_getAttribute(xmlflat.df, elemid, attrib.name)

`xmlflat.df`	A flat XML dataframe created with `fxml_importXMLFlat`.
`elemid`	The ID of the XML element. The ID is the value of the `elemid.` field in the flat XML dataframe.
`attrib.name`	Name of the attribute.

The value of attribute attrib.name of the XML element with ID elemid. If the attribute is not existing, an error message is shown.

Joachim Zuckarelli joachim@zuckarelli.de

fxml_hasAttributes, fxml_numAttributes, fxml_getAttributesAll

# Load example file with population data from United Nations Statistics Division
# and create flat dataframe
example <- system.file("worldpopulation.xml", package="flatxml")
xml.dataframe <- fxml_importXMLFlat(example)

# Read the value of attribute "name" from the XML element with ID 4 (xml.dataframe$elemid. ==  4)
fxml_getAttribute(xml.dataframe, 4, "name")