createElement Method

Creates an element node using the specified name.

objXMLDOMElement = oXMLDOMDocument.createElement(tagName)

Parameters

tagName

String specifying the name for the new element node. The name is case sensitive. This name is subsequently available as the element node's nodeName property.

Return Value

Object. Returns the XMLDOMElement object for the new element.

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 DOMDocument object's createNode method

Although this method creates the new object in the context of this document, it 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 property has the value NODE_ELEMENT.

Example

The following example creates an element called PAGES and appends it to an XMLDOMNode object. It then sets the text value of the element to 400:

Dim xmlDoc
Dim root
Dim newElem
Set xmlDoc = CreateObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument")
xmlDoc.async = False
xmlDoc.load("c:\books.xml")
Set root = xmlDoc.documentElement
Set newElem = xmlDoc.createElement("PAGES")
root.childNodes.item(1).appendChild newElem
root.childNodes.item(1).lastChild.text = "400"
MsgBox root.childNodes.item(1).xml

See Also

Applies To: DOMDocument Object