# This illustrates using the new naming scheme for generic handlers # that use a . prefix. h = list(.text = function(content) cat("text:", xmlValue(content), "\n"), .comment = function(node) cat("##", xmlValue(node), "\n"), .processingInstruction = function(target, content) cat("PI: [", target, "]", content, "\n"), .startElement = function(node, attrs) { cat("New node:", xmlName(node), paste(names(xmlAttrs(node)), collapse = ", "), "\n")}, .endElement = function(node) { cat("end node:", node, "\n")}, .startDocument = function(...) cat("start of document\n"), .endDocument = function(...) cat("end of document\n"), .cdata = function(node) cat("CDATA:", xmlValue(node), "\n") ) xmlTreeParse("test.xml", handlers = h, asTree = TRUE, useDotNames = TRUE)