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\name{readKeyValueDB}
\alias{readKeyValueDB}
\alias{readKeyValueDB,character-method}
\alias{readKeyValueDB,XMLInternalDocument-method}
\alias{readKeyValueDB,XMLInternalNode-method}
\alias{readKeyValueDB,AsIs-method}
\title{Read an XML property-list style document}
\description{
This function and its methods reads an XML document
that is in the format of name-value or key-value
pairs made up of a \code{plist} and
\code{dict} nodes, each of which is made up \code{key}, and value node
pairs. These used to be used for property lists on OS X and
can represetn arbitrary data relatively conveniently.
}
\usage{
readKeyValueDB(doc, ...)
}
\arguments{
\item{doc}{the object containing the data. This can be the name of a
file, a parsed XML document or an XML node.}
\item{\dots}{additional parameters for the methods.
One can pass \code{dropComments} as a logical value to control
whether comment nodes are processed or ignored (\code{TRUE}).
}
}
\value{
An R object representing the data read from the XML content.
This is typically a named list or vector where the names are the keys
and the values are collected into an R "container".
}
\references{
Property lists.
}
\author{
Duncan Temple Lang
}
\seealso{
\code{\link{readSolrDoc}},
\code{\link{xmlToList}},
\code{\link{xmlToDataFrame}},
\code{\link{xmlParse}}
}
\examples{
if(file.exists("/usr/share/hiutil/Stopwords.plist")) {
o = readKeyValueDB("/usr/share/hiutil/Stopwords.plist")
}
if(file.exists("/usr/share/java/Tools/Applet Launcher.app/Contents/Info.plist"))
javaInfo = readKeyValueDB('/usr/share/java/Tools/Applet Launcher.app/Contents/Info.plist')
}
\keyword{IO}
\concept{XML}
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