R: Read an XML property-list style document

readKeyValueDB {XML} | R Documentation

## Read an XML property-list style document

### Description

This function and its methods reads an XML document that is in the format of name-value or key-value pairs made up of a `plist` and `dict` nodes, each of which is made up `key`, and value node pairs. These used to be used for property lists on OS X and can represetn arbitrary data relatively conveniently.

### Usage

    readKeyValueDB(doc, ...)

### Arguments

`doc` | the object containing the data. This can be the name of a file, a parsed XML document or an XML node.
`...` | additional parameters for the methods. One can pass `dropComments` as a logical value to control whether comment nodes are processed or ignored (`TRUE`).

### Value

An R object representing the data read from the XML content. This is typically a named list or vector where the names are the keys and the values are collected into an R "container".

### Author(s)

Duncan Temple Lang

### References

Property lists.

### See Also

`readSolrDoc`, `xmlToList`, `xmlToDataFrame`, `xmlParse`

### Examples

     if(file.exists("/usr/share/hiutil/Stopwords.plist")) {
      o = readKeyValueDB("/usr/share/hiutil/Stopwords.plist")
     }

     if(file.exists("/usr/share/java/Tools/Applet Launcher.app/Contents/Info.plist"))
        javaInfo = readKeyValueDB('/usr/share/java/Tools/Applet Launcher.app/Contents/Info.plist')

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