Get the version of the libxml library.

DESCRIPTION:

This currently retrieves the version of the libxml library used when installing this XML package.

USAGE:

libxmlVersion()

DETAILS:

This computes the version at compile time. In the future we will hopefully find a way to find the run-time version.

VALUE:

A named list with fields
major
the major version number, either 1 or 2 indicating the old or new-style library.
minor
the within version release number.
patch
the within minor release version number

AUTHOR(S):

Duncan Temple Lang

REFERENCES:

http://www.w3.org/XML, http://www.xmlsoft.org, http://www.omegahat.org

SEE ALSO:

EXAMPLES:

 ver <- libxmlVersion()
 if(is.null(ver)) {
   cat("Relly old version of libxml\n")
 } else {
   if(ver$major > 1) {
     cat("Using libxml2\n")
   }
 }