IXMLDOMDocument::createElement Method

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Creates an element node using the specified name.

Visual Basic Syntax

Set objXMLDOMElement = oXMLDOMDocument.createElement(tagName)

C/C++ Syntax

HRESULT createElement(
    BSTR tagName,
    IXMLDOMElement **element);

Parameters

tagName

[in] Name for the new element node. The name is case sensitive. This name is subsequently available as the element node's nodeName property.

element

[out] Address of the IXMLDOMElement interface for the new element.

C/C++ Return Values

S_OK

Value returned if successful.

E_INVALIDARG

Value returned if element is null.

E_FAIL

Value returned if an error occurs.

Remarks

Creating an element with this method is the same as using createNode where the Type parameter value is NODE_ELEMENT and no namespace is specified. 

You cannot create a namespace-qualified element using the createElement method. Regardless of whether a namespace prefix is included in tagName, the namespaceURI property for the new element node is set to an empty string, "". An element node constructed as part of an XML document load operation will never have both a prefix and an empty namespace URI. You can only create a namespace-qualified element using the IXMLDOMDocument interface's createNode method.

Although this method creates the new object in the context of this document, this method does not automatically add the new object to the document tree. In other words, although the ownerDocument property of the new node points to this document object, the parentNode property is set to NULL. You must explicitly call one of the node insert methods—insertBefore, replaceChild, or appendChild—to add the new object.

The nodeType has the value NODE_ELEMENT.