title: R - How to extract items from XML Nodeset?
body: <p>I have a list of 438 pitcher names that look like this (in XML Nodeset):</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt; pitcherlinks[[1]]
  &lt;td class="left " data-append-csv="abadfe01" data-stat="player" csk="Abad,Fernando0.01"&gt;
    &lt;a href="/players/a/abadfe01.shtml"&gt;FernandoÂ Abad&lt;/a&gt;*
  &lt;/td&gt; 
  
  &gt; pitcherlinks[[2]]
  &lt;td class="left " data-append-csv="adlemti01" data-stat="player" csk="Adleman,Tim0.01"&gt;
    &lt;a href="/players/a/adlemti01.shtml"&gt;TimÂ Adleman&lt;/a&gt;
  &lt;/td&gt; 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How do I extract the names like <code>FernandoÂ Abad</code> and the associated links like <code>/players/a/abadfe01.shtml</code></p>