System.Xml.XmlDocument.CreateElement Method

Creates an element with the specified name.

Syntax

public XmlElement CreateElement (string name)

Parameters

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

Returns

The new XmlElement.

Remarks

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.

Requirements

Namespace: System.Xml
Assembly: System.Xml (in System.Xml.dll)
Assembly Versions: 1.0.5000.0, 2.0.0.0, 4.0.0.0