我是R中解析XML的新手.我正在尝试将XML解析为可行的数据框.我已经尝试了XML包中的一些XPath函数,但似乎无法得出正确的答案.
这是我的XML:
- <ResidentialProperty>
- <Listing>
- <StreetAddress>
- <StreetNumber>11111</StreetNumber>
- <StreetName>111th</StreetName>
- <StreetSuffix>Avenue Ct</StreetSuffix>
- <StateOrProvince>WA</StateOrProvince>
- </StreetAddress>
- <MLSInformation>
- <ListingStatus Status="Active"/>
- <StatusChangeDate>2015-07-05T23:48:53.410</StatusChangeDate>
- </MLSInformation>
- <GeographicData>
- <Latitude>11.111111</Latitude>
- <Longitude>-111.111111</Longitude>
- <County>Pierce</County>
- </GeographicData>
- <SchoolData>
- <SchoolDistrict>Puyallup</SchoolDistrict>
- </SchoolData>
- <View>Territorial</View>
- </Listing>
- <YearBuilt>1997</YearBuilt>
- <InteriorFeatures>Bath Off Master,Dbl Pane/Storm Windw</InteriorFeatures>
- <Occupant>
- <Name>Vacant</Name>
- </Occupant>
- <WaterFront/>
- <Roof>Composition</Roof>
- <Exterior>Brick,Cement Planked,Wood,Wood Products</
- </ResidentialProperty>
当我跑:
- ResidentialProperty <- xmlToDataFrame(nodes=getNodeSet(doc,"//ResidentialProperty"))
父节点中子节点的值被压缩为:
- 11111111thAvenue CtWA2015-07-05T23:48:53.41011.111111-111.111111PiercePuyallupTerritorial
如果我向下移动一个节点,则会发生同样的事情:
- 11111111thAvenue CtWA
子节点的值全部粘贴在一起.
我也试过一种有点工作的蛮力方法:
- StreetAddress <- xmlToDataFrame(nodes=getNodeSet(doc,"//StreetAddress"))
- MLSInformation <- xmlToDataFrame(nodes=getNodeSet(doc,"//MLSInformation"))
- GeographicData <- xmlToDataFrame(nodes=getNodeSet(doc,"//GeographicData"))
- SchoolData <- xmlToDataFrame(nodes=getNodeSet(doc,"//SchoolData"))
- YearBuilt <- xmlToDataFrame(nodes=getNodeSet(doc,"//YearBuilt"))
- InteriorFeatures <- xmlToDataFrame(nodes=getNodeSet(doc,"//InteriorFeatures"))
- Occupant <- xmlToDataFrame(nodes=getNodeSet(doc,"//Occupant"))
- Roof <- xmlToDataFrame(nodes=getNodeSet(doc,"//Roof"))
- Exterior <- xmlToDataFrame(nodes=getNodeSet(doc,"//Exterior"))
- df <- cbind(StreetAddress,MLSInformation,GeographicData,SchoolData,YearBuilt,InteriorFeatures,Occupant,Roof,Exterior)
但是一些列名不符合预期:
- > colnames(df)
- [1] "StreetNumber" "StreetName" "StreetSuffix" "StateOrProvince" "ListingStatus"
- [6] "StatusChangeDate" "Latitude" "Longitude" "County" "SchoolDistrict"
- [11] "text" "text" "Name" "text" "text"
colnames [11,12,14,15]应分别为“YearBuilt”,“InteriorFeatures”,“Roof”和“Exterior”. (旁注 – 为什么会这样?)
我试图找到一种方法将每个原子值排序到数据框的适当列中,列名称是节点的名称,即使在嵌套的子节点中也是如此.此外,我的数据可能会随着时间的推移而发生变化,所以我正在寻找一种符合数据的动态函数,如果可能的话会产生预期的结果.
我想这是一个有点常见的XML模式(带有嵌套子元素的层),所以我很惊讶没有找到关于这个主题的太多信息,尽管我可能只是在我的搜索中使用了错误的术语.我猜我有一个简单的答案.你有什么建议吗?
考虑到xml保存您的示例字符串,这是具有不同数量项目的住宅物业的另一种策略:
- library(XML)
- library(plyr)
- # xml <- '<ResidentialProperty>........'
- doc <- xmlParse(xml,asText = TRUE)
- df <- do.call(rbind.fill,lapply(doc['//ResidentialProperty'],function(x) {
- names <- xpathSApply(x,'.//.',xmlName)
- names <- names[which(names == "text") - 1]
- values <- xpathSApply(x,".//text()",xmlValue)
- return(as.data.frame(t(setNames(values,names)),stringsAsFactors = FALSE))
- }))
- df
- # StreetNumber StreetName StreetSuffix StateOrProvince StatusChangeDate Latitude Longitude County SchoolDistrict View YearBuilt InteriorFeatures Name Roof Exterior
- # 1 11111 111th Avenue Ct WA 2015-07-05T23:48:53.410 11.111111 -111.111111 Pierce Puyallup Territorial 1997 Bath Off Master,Dbl Pane/Storm Windw Vacant Composition Brick,Wood Products