Issues

• Optimize xml_path() and xml_find_all() for large node sets

  r-lib/xml2#477 · Filter by author astruebi opened on Jun 5, 2026

• read_xml crashes R when trying to read from an archive::archive_read connection if the connection is closed beforehand

  r-lib/xml2#470 · Filter by author wkumler opened on Nov 21, 2025

• xml_ancestors as akin to xml_parent() and equivalent to xml_find_all(., "ancestor::*")

  r-lib/xml2#454 · Filter by author MichaelChirico opened on Mar 10, 2025
  1

• FR: xml_url() to return resolved location, or new xml_url_canonical()

  r-lib/xml2#453 · Filter by author t-kalinowski opened on Feb 27, 2025

• Track HTML 5 support

  feature
  r-lib/xml2#447 · Filter by author hadley opened on Oct 7, 2024

• Support indentation of generated xml / html

  feature
  r-lib/xml2#446 · Filter by author kevinushey opened on Sep 6, 2024
  2

• Switch to S7

  upkeep
  r-lib/xml2#443 · Filter by author hadley opened on Jul 15, 2024

• url_parse doesn't work with URL containing non-ASCII characters

  bug
  r-lib/xml2#442 · Filter by author MarekProkop opened on May 14, 2024

• print(xml_document) does not scale with large documents

  bug
  r-lib/xml2#441 · Filter by author zeehio opened on Mar 12, 2024
  1

• read_html() doesn't report parsing failure on very very long lines

  bug
  r-lib/xml2#440 · Filter by author hadley opened on Feb 27, 2024

• Support for prefixed names in writing xml nodes

  r-lib/xml2#438 · Filter by author eblondel opened on Jan 28, 2024
  10

• Duplicated names for elements in list after calling as_list

  feature
  r-lib/xml2#436 · Filter by author pepijn-devries opened on Dec 30, 2023

• Is NaN the right value for xml_find_num() of an absent XPath?

  bugxpath 🚶‍♂️
  r-lib/xml2#435 · Filter by author MichaelChirico opened on Dec 19, 2023

• ?xml_add_child needs examples

  documentation
  r-lib/xml2#434 · Filter by author MichaelChirico opened on Dec 19, 2023

• Implement c.xml_nodeset

  bug
  r-lib/xml2#433 · Filter by author AshesITR opened on Dec 13, 2023

• Update the 'Setting the "user agent" header' manual section

  documentation
  r-lib/xml2#432 · Filter by author maelle opened on Dec 4, 2023

• Build process on Linux includes shared libraries not in library path.

  bug
  r-lib/xml2#424 · Filter by author rbrittain opened on Nov 30, 2023
  1

• read_xml_num: Lacks Example and Detailed Explanation

  documentationxpath 🚶‍♂️
  r-lib/xml2#415 · Filter by author discoleo opened on Nov 3, 2023

• xml_descendants() as akin to xml_child()/xml_children() and equivalent to xml_find_all(., "descendant::*")

  feature
  r-lib/xml2#409 · Filter by author MichaelChirico opened on Oct 13, 2023

• xml_length() on empty nodeset

  bug
  r-lib/xml2#404 · Filter by author mgirlich opened on Aug 29, 2023
  3

• FR: Support dynamic dots

  featureupkeep
  r-lib/xml2#402 · Filter by author ramiromagno opened on Aug 27, 2023

• url_absolute fails with spaces in url

  bugurl 👑
  r-lib/xml2#401 · Filter by author jonthegeek opened on Aug 23, 2023

• Improve performance

  r-lib/xml2#394 · Filter by author mgirlich opened on Jun 1, 2023
  1

• Convert skipped httpbin tests to use webfaker

  upkeep
  r-lib/xml2#389 · Filter by author hadley opened on Apr 25, 2023

• xml2 is not removing namespaced attributes

  bugnamespace 📛
  r-lib/xml2#387 · Filter by author cole-johanson opened on Apr 24, 2023