Parse "Content-type: application/xml" using xmlTreeParse

[leeper]

I'm encountering an API whose response (out of GET) looks like:

  Status: 200
  Content-type: application/xml; charset=utf-8
  Size: 103 B
<BINARY BODY>

Apparently content currently only handles a body that is text/xml, but as far as I can tell application/xml is substantively the same and (from an R perspective) would be handled the same as text/xml.

Can content be modified to handle this in the same way as text/xml?

[hadley]

Yes, that should be easy. In the interim, you can do content(r, type = "text/xml")