XmlDocument.CreateElement Method (String)

 

Creates an element with the specified name.

Namespace:   System.Xml
Assembly:  System.Xml (in System.Xml.dll)

Public Function CreateElement (
	name As String
) As XmlElement

Parameters

name
Type: System.String

The qualified name of the element. If the name contains a colon then the Prefix property reflects the part of the name preceding the colon and the LocalName property reflects the part of the name after the colon. The qualified name cannot include a prefix of'xmlns'.

Return Value

Type: System.Xml.XmlElement

The new XmlElement.

Note that the instance returned implements the XmlElement interface, so default attributes would be created directly on the returned object.

Although this method creates the new object in the context of the document, it does not automatically add the new object to the document tree. To add the new object, you must explicitly call one of the node insert methods.

According to the W3C Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 recommendation (www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210), Element nodes are allowed within Document and Element nodes, and in EntityReference nodes when the EntityReference node is not a child of an Attribute node.

The following example creates a new element and adds it to the document.

Option Explicit
Option Strict

Imports System
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Xml

Public Class Sample

    Public Shared Sub Main()
        'Create the XmlDocument.
        Dim doc As New XmlDocument()
        doc.LoadXml("<book genre='novel' ISBN='1-861001-57-5'>"  & _
                    "<title>Pride And Prejudice</title>"  & _
                    "</book>")

        'Create a new node and add it to the document.
        'The text node is the content of the price element.
        Dim elem As XmlElement = doc.CreateElement("price")
        Dim text As XmlText = doc.CreateTextNode("19.95")
        doc.DocumentElement.AppendChild(elem)
        doc.DocumentElement.LastChild.AppendChild(text)

        Console.WriteLine("Display the modified XML...")
        doc.Save(Console.Out)
    End Sub 'Main 
End Class 'Sample

Universal Windows Platform
Available since 10
.NET Framework
Available since 1.1
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