DOMElement::__construct

(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

DOMElement::__construct Creates a new DOMElement object

Description

public DOMElement::__construct(string $qualifiedName, ?string $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

qualifiedName

The tag name of the element. When also passing in namespaceURI, the element name may take a prefix to be associated with the URI.

value

The value of the element.

namespace

A namespace URI to create the element within a specific namespace.

Examples

Example #1 Creating a new DOMElement

<?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="utf-8"?><root><pr:node1 xmlns:pr="http://xyz">thisvalue</pr:node1></root> */?>

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