setXMLNamespace {XML} | R Documentation

## Set the name space on a node

### Description

This function sets the name space for an XML node, typically an internal node. We can use it to either define a new namespace and use that, or refer to a name space definition in an ancestor of the current node.

### Usage

    setXMLNamespace(node, namespace, append = FALSE)

### Arguments

`node` | the node on which the name space is to be set
`namespace` | the name space to use for the node. This can be a name space prefix (string) defined in an ancestor node, or a named character vector of the form `c(prefix = URI)` that defines a new namespace on this node, or we can use a name space object created with `newXMLNamespace`.
`append` | currently ignored.

### Value

An object of class `XMLNamespaceRef` which is a reference to the native/internal/C-level name space object.

### Author(s)

Duncan Temple Lang

### See Also

`newXMLNamespace`

`removeXMLNamespaces`

### Examples

      # define a new namespace
     e = newXMLNode("foo")
     setXMLNamespace(e, c("r" = "http://www.r-project.org"))

      # use an existing namespace on an ancestor node
     e = newXMLNode("top", namespaceDefinitions = c("r" = "http://www.r-project.org"))
     setXMLNamespace(e, "r")
     e

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