System.Xml.XmlDocument.CreateElement Method

Creates an System.Xml.XmlElement with the qualified name and XmlNode.NamespaceURI.

Syntax

public XmlElement CreateElement (string qualifiedName, string namespaceURI)

Parameters

qualifiedName
The qualified name of the element. If the name contains a colon then the XmlNode.Prefix property will reflect the part of the name preceding the colon and the XmlDocument.LocalName property will reflect the part of the name after the colon. The qualified name cannot include a prefix of'xmlns'.
namespaceURI
The namespace URI of the element.

Returns

The new XmlElement.

Remarks

The following C# code

Example

 XmlElement elem;
 elem=doc.CreateElement("xy:item", "urn:abc");

results in an element that is equivalent to the following XML text.

Example

<xy:item
       xmlns:xy="urn:abc"/>

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