coerceNodes               package:XML               R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     This collection of coercion methods (i.e. 'as(obj, "type")')
     allows users of the 'XML' package to switch between different
     representations of XML nodes and to map from an XML document to
     the root node and from a node to the document.  This helps to
     manage the nodes

_V_a_l_u_e:

     An object of the target type

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

     'xmlTreeParse' 'xmlParse'

