This writes out both XML and normalised HTML. The default behavior will
output the same format which was read. If you want to force output pass
option = "as_xml" or option = "as_html" respectively.
Usage
write_xml(x, file, ...)
# S3 method for xml_document
write_xml(x, file, ..., options = "format", encoding = "UTF-8")
write_html(x, file, ...)
# S3 method for xml_document
write_html(x, file, ..., options = "format", encoding = "UTF-8")Arguments
- x
A document or node to write to disk. It's not possible to save nodesets containing more than one node.
- file
Path to file or connection to write to.
- ...
additional arguments passed to methods.
- options
default: ‘format’. Zero or more of
- format
Format output
- no_declaration
Drop the XML declaration
- no_empty_tags
Remove empty tags
- no_xhtml
Disable XHTML1 rules
- require_xhtml
Force XHTML rules
- as_xml
Force XML output
- as_html
Force HTML output
- format_whitespace
Format with non-significant whitespace
- encoding
The character encoding to use in the document. The default encoding is ‘UTF-8’. Available encodings are specified at http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-encoding.html#xmlCharEncoding.
Examples
h <- read_html("<p>Hi!</p>")
tmp <- tempfile(fileext = ".xml")
write_xml(h, tmp, options = "format")
readLines(tmp)
#> [1] "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN\" \"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd\">"
#> [2] "<html><body><p>Hi!</p></body></html>"
# write formatted HTML output
write_html(h, tmp, options = "format")
readLines(tmp)
#> [1] "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN\" \"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd\">"
#> [2] "<html><body><p>Hi!</p></body></html>"