title: Getting the 'Start Tag Expected' error in R
body: <p>I am trying to parse a XML file using RStudio. Here are few lines of my file  </p>
  
  <p><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
  &lt;iaapi:Project name="IA Quickstart" xmlns:iaapi="http://www.ibm.com/investigate/api/iaapi"&gt;
  &lt;DataRuleDefinition name="DRD_dummy_rule"&gt;
  &lt;ExecutableRules&gt;</code>  </p>
  
  <p>I used the function xmlParse() to parse the file, but am getting the following error: Start tag expected.'&lt;' not found'</p>
  
  <p>But as we can see we have the '&lt;' tag in the beginning of the xml string. Help is greatly appreciated.</p>
  
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