Returns the value of a specific attribute of an XML element.

fxml_getAttribute(xmlflat.df, elemid, attrib.name)

Arguments

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.

attrib.name

Name of the attribute.

Value

The value of attribute attrib.name of the XML element with ID elemid. If the attribute is not existing, an error message is shown.

See also

Examples

# 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) # Read the value of attribute "name" from the XML element with ID 4 (xml.dataframe$elemid. == 4) fxml_getAttribute(xml.dataframe, 4, "name")
#> [1] "Country or Area"