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

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Returns the siblings of an XML element, i.e. the elements on the same hierarchical level.

1	fxml_getSiblings(xmlflat.df, elemid)

`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.

The IDs (xmlflat.df$elemid.) of the siblings of the XML element with ID elemid. If no siblings exist, NULL is returned.

Joachim Zuckarelli joachim@zuckarelli.de

fxml_hasSiblings, fxml_getSiblings

# 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)

# Get all the siblings (elements on the same hierarchy level) of the XML element with ID 4
# (xml.dataframe$elemid. ==  4)
fxml_getSiblings(xml.dataframe, 4)