Handling flat XML files

Returns the element name of an XML element.

fxml_getElement(xmlflat.df, elemid)

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.

Value

Name of the element identified by the ID (xmlflat.df$elemid.) elemid.

See also

fxml_getUniqueElements

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)

# Get the XML element with ID 3 (xml.dataframe$elemid. ==  3)
fxml_getElement(xml.dataframe, 3)
#> [1] "record"