Download XML notice associated with a URL

Downloads an XML notice of a given type associated with a Cellar resource.

elx_download_xml(
  url,
  file = paste(basename(url), ".xml", sep = ""),
  notice = c("tree", "branch", "object"),
  language_1 = "en",
  language_2 = "fr",
  language_3 = "de",
  mode = "wb"
)

Arguments

url

A valid url as character vector of length one based on a resource identifier such as CELEX or Cellar URI.

file

A character string with the name where the downloaded file is saved.

notice

The type of notice requested controls what kind of metadata are returned.

language_1

The priority language in which the data will be attempted to be retrieved, in ISO 639 2-char code

language_2

If data not available in language_1, try language_2

language_3

If data not available in language_2, try language_3

mode

A character string specifying the mode with which to write the file. Useful values are "w", "wb" (binary), "a" (append) and "ab".

Value

Path of downloaded file (invisibly) if server validates request (http status code has to be 200). For more information about notices, see Cellar documentation.

Details

To retrieve all identifiers associated with a url, use elx_fetch_data(type = "ids").

Examples

# \donttest{
temploc <- paste(tempdir(), "elxnotice.xml", sep = "\\")
elx_download_xml(url = "http://publications.europa.eu/resource/celex/32022D0154",
 file = temploc, notice = "object")
# }