R: Write XML or HTML to disk.

write_xml {xml2} | R Documentation

## Write XML or HTML to disk.

### Description

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 class 'xml_document'
    write_xml(x, file, ..., options = "format", encoding = "UTF-8")

    write_html(x, file, ...)

    ## S3 method for class '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)

    # write formatted HTML output
    write_html(h, tmp, options = "format")
    readLines(tmp)

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