Revision 62242eada7c9a389196b694fb817566967232b2e authored by Duncan Temple Lang on 17 April 2007, 00:00:00 UTC, committed by Gabor Csardi on 17 April 2007, 00:00:00 UTC
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xmlSize.Rd
\name{xmlSize}
\alias{xmlSize}
\alias{xmlSize.default}
\alias{xmlSize.XMLDocument}
\alias{xmlSize.XMLNode}
\title{The number of sub-elements within an XML node.}
\description{
XML elements can contain other, nested sub-elements.
This generic function determines the number of
such elements within a specified node.
It applies to an object of class XMLNode or XMLDocument.
}
\usage{
xmlSize(obj)
}
\arguments{
\item{obj}{ An an object of class XMLNode
or XMLDocument.}
}
\value{
an integer which is the \code{\link{length}}
of the value from \code{\link{xmlChildren}}.
}
\references{\url{http://www.w3.org/XML}, \url{http://www.jclark.com/xml},
\url{http://www.omegahat.org} }
\author{ Duncan Temple Lang }
\seealso{
\code{\link{xmlChildren}},
\code{\link{xmlAttrs}},
\code{\link{xmlName}},
\code{\link{xmlTreeParse}}
}
\examples{
fileName <- system.file("exampleData", "mtcars.xml", package="XML")
doc <- xmlTreeParse(fileName)
xmlSize(doc)
xmlSize(doc$doc$children[["dataset"]][["variables"]])
}
\keyword{file}
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