libxmlVersion {XML} | R Documentation

## Get the version of the libxml library.

### Description

This currently retrieves the version of the libxml library used when installing this XML package.

### Usage

    libxmlVersion()

### Details

This computes the version at compile time. In the future we will hopefully find a way to find the run-time version.

### Value

A named list with fields

`major` | the major version number, either 1 or 2 indicating the old or new-style library.
`minor` | the within version release number.
`patch` | the within minor release version number

### Author(s)

Duncan Temple Lang

### References

http://www.w3.org/XML, http://www.xmlsoft.org, http://www.omegahat.org

### See Also

### Examples

     ver <- libxmlVersion()
     if(is.null(ver)) {
       cat("Relly old version of libxml\n")
     } else {
       if(ver$major > 1) {
         cat("Using libxml2\n")
       }
     }

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