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Extracting Microsoft Office metadata using R
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| library(XML) | |
| #use R's inbuilt unzip function, knowing that the required metadata is in docProps/core.xml | |
| doc = xmlInternalTreeParse(unzip('test.docx','docProps/core.xml')) | |
| #define the namespace | |
| ns=c('dc'= 'http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/') | |
| #extract the author using xpath query | |
| author = xmlValue(getNodeSet(doc, '/*/dc:creator', namespaces=ns)[[1]]) |
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