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Yehuda Shiran February 6, 2002
Particular-Type Node Generation
Tips: February 2002

Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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The DOMDocument object exposes both the generic createNode() method as well as methods to create particular-type nodes, such as the createElement() method. Creating an element with this method is the same as creating a node with createNode() where the type is "element" and no namespace is specified. In order to create a namespace-qualified attribute, use the createNode() method. You can only set the name of the element with createElement(). Set the text property of the node to set the content of the element.

Notice that when you create the element object, it is not automatically connected to the current document's tree. Its ownerDocument property is equal to the document object, but its parentNode property is null. Use one of the three inserting methods to hook the new element object to the document tree: insertBefore(), replaceChild(), or appendChild().


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