DOMDocument->createElement()

Description

This function creates a new instance of class DOMElement. This node will not show up in the document unless it is inserted with e.g. DOMNode->appendChild().

Parameters

Return Values

Returns a new instance of class DOMElement or FALSE if an error occured.

Exceptions

Examples

Example 1. Creating a new element and inserting it as root <?php $dom = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'iso-8859-1'); $element = $dom->createElement('test', 'This is the root element!'); // We insert the new element as root (child of the document) $dom->appendChild($element); echo $dom->saveXML(); ?> The above example will output: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <test>This is the root element!</test>

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