stCollection-class</a></code> object</p></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <th>xml.dPath</th>
      <td><p>(<code>character</code>) Path to directory containing the XML files</p></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <th>f.pattern</th>
      <td><p>(<code>character</code>) An optional regular expression to search the input
directory. Only file names which match the regular expression will be 
returned (passed as argument to <code><a href='http://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/base/topics/list.files'>list.fil