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Creates an element node using the specified name.
var objXMLDOMElement = oXMLDOMDocument.createElement(tagName);
nodeName property.An object. Returns the IXMLDOMElement object for the new element.
The following script example creates an element called PAGES and appends it to an IXMLDOMNode object. It then sets the text value of the element to 400.
var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.5.0");
var root;
var newElem;
xmlDoc.async = false;
xmlDoc.load("books.xml");
if (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode <> 0) {
var myErr = xmlDoc.parseError;
alert("You have error " + myErr.reason);
} else {
root = xmlDoc.documentElement;
newElem = xmlDoc.createElement("PAGES");
root.childNodes.item(0).appendChild(newElem);
root.childNodes.item(0).lastChild.text = "400";
alert(root.childNodes.item(0).xml);
}
Set objXMLDOMElement = oXMLDOMDocument.createElement(tagName)
nodeName property.An object. Returns the IXMLDOMElement object for the new element.
The following Microsoft® Visual Basic® example creates an element called PAGES and appends it to an IXMLDOMNode object. It then sets the text value of the element to 400.
Dim xmlDoc As New Msxml2.DOMDocument50
Dim root As IXMLDOMElement
Dim newElem As IXMLDOMElement
xmlDoc.async = False
xmlDoc.Load ("books.xml")
If (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode <> 0) Then
Dim myErr
Set myErr = xmlDoc.parseError
MsgBox("You have error " & myErr.reason)
Else
Set root = xmlDoc.documentElement
Set newElem = xmlDoc.createElement("PAGES")
root.childNodes.Item(0).appendChild newElem
root.childNodes.Item(0).lastChild.Text = "400"
MsgBox root.childNodes.Item(0).xml
End If
HRESULT createElement(
BSTR tagName,
IXMLDOMElement **element);
nodeName property.IXMLDOMElement interface for the new element.element parameter is Null.Creating an element with this method is the same as using createNode where the type parameter value is NODE_ELEMENT and no namespace is specified.
You cannot create a namespace-qualified element using the createElement method. Regardless of whether a namespace prefix is included in the tagName parameter, the namespaceURI property for the new element node is set to an empty string, "". An element node constructed as part of an XML document load operation will never have both a prefix and an empty namespace Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). You can only create a namespace-qualified element using the createNode method of the DOMDocument object.
Although this method creates the new object in the context of this document, it does not automatically add the new object to the document tree. In other words, although the ownerDocument property of the new node points to this document object, the parentNode property is set to Null. To add the new object, you must explicitly call one of the node insert methods, insertBefore method, replaceChild method, or appendChild method.
The nodeType property has the value NODE_ELEMENT.
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createNode Method | namespaceURI Property (IXMLDOMNode) | ownerDocument Property | parentNode Property | nodeName Property | nodeType Property | insertBefore Method | replaceChild Method | appendChild Method | IXMLDOMElement
Applies to: DOMDocument