xmlChildren {XML} | R Documentation

## Gets the sub-nodes within an XMLNode object.

### Description

This returns a list of XMLNode objects within an XMLNode object.

### Usage

    xmlChildren(x)

### Arguments

`x` | an object of class XMLNode.

### Value

A list whose elements are sub-nodes of the user-specified XMLNode. These are also of class XMLNode.

### Author(s)

Duncan Temple Lang

### References

http://www.w3.org/XML

### See Also

`xmlChildren`,`xmlSize`, `xmlTreeParse`

### Examples

      fileName <- system.file("exampleData", "mtcars.xml", package="XML")
      doc <- xmlTreeParse(fileName)
      names(xmlChildren(doc$doc$children[["dataset"]]))

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