Creates an System.Xml.XmlNode with the specified node type, XmlDocument.Name, and XmlNode.NamespaceURI.
- nodeTypeString
- String version of the System.Xml.XmlNodeType of the new node. This parameter must be one of the values listed in the table below.
- name
- The qualified name of the new node. If the name contains a colon, it is parsed into XmlNode.Prefix and XmlDocument.LocalName components.
- namespaceURI
- The namespace URI of the new node.
The new XmlNode.
The nodeTypeString parameter is case sensitive and must be one of the values in the following table.
attribute |
Attribute |
cdatasection |
CDATA |
comment |
Comment |
document |
Document |
documentfragment |
DocumentFragment |
documenttype |
DocumentType |
element |
Element |
entityreference |
EntityReference |
processinginstruction |
ProcessingInstruction |
significantwhitespace |
SignificantWhitespace |
text |
Text |
whitespace |
Whitespace |
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.
The following table shows you what NodeType[row] is allowed inside another NodeType[column] according to the W3C Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 recommendation (www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210).
Document |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
DocumentType |
yes |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
XmlDeclaration |
yes* |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
Element |
yes |
no |
no |
yes |
no |
no |
no |
no |
yes*** |
Attribute |
no |
no |
no |
yes**** |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
Text |
no |
no |
no |
yes |
yes |
no |
no |
no |
yes |
CDATA |
no |
no |
no |
yes |
no |
no |
no |
no |
yes*** |
Markup** |
yes |
no |
no |
yes |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
EntityReference |
no |
no |
no |
yes |
yes |
no |
no |
no |
yes |
* The XmlDeclaration node must be the first child of the Document node.
** Markup includes ProcessingInstruction and Comment nodes.
*** Element and CDATA nodes are only allowed in EntityReference nodes when the EntityReference node is not a child of an Attribute node.
**** Attributes are not children of an Element node. Attributes are contained inside an attribute collection that belongs to an Element node.
This method is a Microsoft extension to the Document Object Model (DOM).