xmlName {XML} | R Documentation

## Extraces the tag name of an XMLNode object.

### Description

Each XMLNode object has an element or tag name introduced in the `<name ...>` entry in an XML document. This function returns that name.

We can also set that name using `xmlName(node) <- "name"` and the value can have an XML name space prefix, e.g. `"r:name"`.

### Usage

    xmlName(node, full = FALSE)

### Arguments

`node` | The XMLNode object whose tag name is being requested.
`full` | a logical value indicating whether to prepend the namespace prefix, if there is one, or return just the name of the XML element/node. `TRUE` means prepend the prefix.

### Value

A character vector of length textit{1} which is the `node$name` entry.

### Author(s)

Duncan Temple Lang

### References

http://www.w3.org/XML, http://www.jclark.com/xml, http://www.omegahat.org

### See Also

`xmlChildren`, `xmlAttrs`, `xmlTreeParse`

### Examples

     fileName <- system.file("exampleData", "test.xml", package="XML")
     doc <- xmlTreeParse(fileName)
     xmlName(xmlRoot(doc)[[1]])

     tt = xmlRoot(doc)[[1]]
     xmlName(tt)
     xmlName(tt) <- "bob"

      # We can set the node on an internal object also.
     n = newXMLNode("x")

     xmlName(n)
     xmlName(n) <- "y"

     xmlName(n) <- "r:y"

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