R: Handling XML files.

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Handling XML files.

Description

Input and output of a data set description from and to a XML file. These functions are not inteded for direct use by the user for reading the data sets. The function readDSListFromXML() is called from prepareDataDir(). The function saveDSListAsXML is used for preparing the file contents.xml in the data set description directory.

Usage

readDSListFromXML(filename)
saveDSListAsXML(dsList, filename)

Arguments

`dsList`	A data frame created by `prepareDataDirectory()`.
`filename`	The name of an XML file to be used.

Value

saveDSListAsXML() returns the filename of the created file. readDSListFromXML() returns a data frame with the description of the data sets.

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