Thanks Duncan. However, now I can't get the Spanish and Portuguese accented vowels to come out correctly and still keep the indents in the saved document, even when I set encoding = "UTF-8":
library("XML") concepts <- c("español", "português") info <- c("info about español", "info about português") doc <- newXMLDoc() root <- newXMLNode("tips", doc = doc) for (i in 1:length(concepts)) { cur.concept <- concepts[i] cur.info <- info[i] cur.tip <- newXMLNode("tip", attrs = c(id = i), parent = root) newXMLNode("h1", cur.concept, parent = cur.tip) newXMLNode("p", cur.info, parent = cur.tip) } # accented vowels don't come through correctly, but the indents are correct: saveXML(doc, file = "test1.xml", indent = T) Resulting file looks like this: <?xml version="1.0"?> <tips> <tip id="1"> <h1>español</h1> <p>info about español</p> </tip> <tip id="2"> <h1>português</h1> <p>info about português</p> </tip> </tips> # accented vowels are correct, but the indents are no longer correct: saveXML(doc, file = "test2.xml", indent = T, encoding = "UTF-8") Resulting file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <tips><tip id="1"><h1>español</h1><p>info about español</p></tip><tip id="2"><h1>português</h1><p>info about português</p></tip></tips> I tried to workaround the problem by simply loading in that resulting file and saving it again: doc2 <- xmlInternalTreeParse(file = "test2.xml", asTree = T) saveXML(doc2, file = "test_word_around.xml", indent = T) but still don't get the indents. Does setting encoding = "UTF-8" override indents = TRUE in saveXML()? Thanks. Earl ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.