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XmlDocument::CreateElement Method (String^)

 

Creates an element with the specified name.

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

public:
XmlElement^ CreateElement(
	String^ name
)

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.

#using <System.Xml.dll>

using namespace System;
using namespace System::IO;
using namespace System::Xml;
int main()
{

   //Create the XmlDocument.
   XmlDocument^ doc = gcnew 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.
   XmlElement^ elem = doc->CreateElement( "price" );
   XmlText^ text = doc->CreateTextNode( "19.95" );
   doc->DocumentElement->AppendChild( elem );
   doc->DocumentElement->LastChild->AppendChild( text );
   Console::WriteLine( "Display the modified XML..." );
   doc->Save( Console::Out );
}

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