XML - get node by name

| I try to rewrite some Java-code with R. It deals with reading XML files. I 
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| Now, I'd like to do something like this in R. Most important would be to 
| retrieve a node just by its name, not by the whole path. How is it possible?
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| Can anybody help me with this issue?

Have you looked at the "XML" package for R ?

Dirk

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