On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Duncan Temple Lang <dun...@wald.ucdavis.edu> wrote: > Hi James. > > Yes, you need to identify the namespace in the query, e.g. > > getNodeSet(doc, "//x:entry", c(x = "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom";)) > > This yeilds 40 matching nodes. > > (getNodeSet() is more convenient to use when you don't specify a function > to apply to the nodes. Also, you don't need xmlRoot(doc), as it works on the > entire document with the query "//...".) > > BTW, you want to use xmlParse() and not xmlTreeParse(). > > D.
Brilliant! Thank you so much. I never would have figure out specifying the namespace like that. I had tried: src <- xpathApply(xmlRoot(doc), "//entry", namespaces = "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom";) but that wasn't working. Thanks again, James ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
