DOMElement::__construct
PHP function
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(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
Creates a new DOMElement object
Description
DOMElement::__construct(string $qualifiedName, string|null $value = null, string $namespace = "")
Creates a new DOMElement object. This object is read only. It may be appended to a document, but additional nodes may not be appended to this node until the node is associated with a document. To create a writeable node, use domdocument.createelement or domdocument.createelementns.
Parameters
qualifiedNameThe tag name of the element. When also passing in namespaceURI, the element name may take a prefix to be associated with the URI.
valueThe value of the element.
namespaceA namespace URI to create the element within a specific namespace.
Examples
Creating a new DOMElement
php
<?php
$dom = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'iso-8859-1');
$element = $dom->appendChild(new DOMElement('root'));
$element_ns = new DOMElement('pr:node1', 'thisvalue', 'http://xyz');
$element->appendChild($element_ns);
echo $dom->saveXML(); /* <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<root><pr:node1 xmlns:pr="http://xyz">thisvalue</pr:node1></root> */
?>See Also
DOMDocument::createElementDOMDocument::createElementNS