DOMDocument Function createElement

PHP Version: (No version information might be only in CVS. I have used this function in PHP5)

DOM: W3C DOM Level 1

Description

This function creates a new Element.

Usage:

object DOMDocument->createElement ( string name [, string value])

This function returns a new instance of class DOMElement. The tag name of the element is the value of the name parameter. Optionally, a value for the new element may also be passed in. This node will not show up in the document unless it is inserted with e.g. DOMNode->appendChild().

The return value is FALSE if an error occurred.

Example:

The XML file, which I have used contains following data. I have stored this file in “c:/topxml_demo/php/xml_files/employee.xml” directory.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<employee>

                        <employeename>test</employeename>

                        <employeeaddress>test123</employeeaddress>

                        <SSN>12343456</SSN>

                        <company>TOPXML</company>

</employee>

PHP Code:

<?php

    $doc = new DomDocument;

// Load the xml file into DOMDocument

$doc->Load('C:/topxml_demo/php/xml_files/employee.xml');

// We retrieve the attribute named id of the employee element

$employee = $doc->getElementsByTagName('employee')->item(0);

//Create a new Element

$newElement = $doc ->createElement('newElement');

//append the new Element node into the employee element

$employee -> appendChild($newElement);

//save the DOMDocument into a file

$test = $doc->save("C:/topxml_demo/php/xml_files/save1.xml");

 echo "<B>DOMCharacterData->createElement example<B>"

 ?>

Output:

The Content of save1.xml is

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<employee>

               <employeename>test</employeename>

               <employeeaddress>test123</employeeaddress>

               <SSN>12343456</SSN>

               <company>TOPXML</company>

               <newElement/>

</employee>