R: Replace an XML node with it child nodes

replaceNodeWithChildren {XML} | R Documentation

## Replace an XML node with it child nodes

### Description

This function can be used to flatten parts of an XML tree. This takes a node and removes itself from the tree, but places its kids in it place.

### Usage

    replaceNodeWithChildren(node)

### Arguments

`node` | an `XMLInternalNode` object

### Value

`NULL`. The purpose of this function is to modify the internal document.

### Author(s)

Duncan Temple Lang

### References

libxml2 documentation.

### Examples

    doc = xmlParse('<doc>
                     <page>
                      <p>A</p>
                      <p>B</p>
                      <p>C</p>
                     </page>
                     <page>
                      <p>D</p>
                      <p>E</p>
                      <p>F</p>
                     </page>
                    </doc>')

    pages = getNodeSet(doc, "//page")
    invisible(lapply(pages, replaceNodeWithChildren))
    doc

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