Re: [R] Treatment of xml-stylesheet processing instructions in XML module

Hi Adam To use XPath and getNodeSet on an XML document, you will want to use xmlParse() and not xmlTreeParse() to parse the XML content. So t = xmlParse(I(a)) # or asText = TRUE elem = getNodeSet(t, "/rss/channel/item")[[1]] works fine. You don't need to specify the root node, but rather the do

[R] Treatment of xml-stylesheet processing instructions in XML module

Hello again, Another stumble here that is defeating me. I try: a<-readLines(url("http://feeds.feedburner.com/grokin";)) t<-XML::xmlTreeParse(a, ignoreBlanks=TRUE, replaceEntities=FALSE, asText=TRUE) elem<- XML::getNodeSet(XML::xmlRoot(t),"/rss/channel/item")[[1]] And I get: Start tag expected, '<