Determines the encoding for an XML document or node

This function and its methods are intended to return the encoding of n XML . It is similar to Encoding but currently restricted to XML nodes and documents.

getEncoding(obj, ...)

Arguments

obj

the object whose encoding is being queried.

...

any additional parameters which can be customized by the methods.

Value

A character vector of length 1 giving the encoding of the XML document.

Author

Duncan Temple Lang

Examples

  f = system.file("exampleData", "charts.svg", package = "XML")
  doc = xmlParse(f)
  getEncoding(doc)
#> [1] "ISO-8859-1"
  n = getNodeSet(doc, "//g/text")[[1]]
  getEncoding(n)
#> [1] "ISO-8859-1"

  f = system.file("exampleData", "iTunes.plist", package = "XML")
  doc = xmlParse(f)
  getEncoding(doc)
#> [1] "UTF-8"