| XML.createElement( ) Method | Flash 5 |
| create a new element node | | xmlDoc.createElement(tagName)
Arguments - tagName
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A case-sensitive string indicating the name of the element to create. For example, in the tag, <P ALIGN="RIGHT">, P is the tag name. Returns A new element node object, with no parent and no children. Description The createElement( ) method is our primary means of generating new element nodes for inclusion in an XML document object hierarchy. The specified xmlDoc must be the top-level node in an XML object hierarchy (i.e., an instance of the XML class, not the XMLnode class). Note that createElement( ) does not insert the element it returns into xmlDoc we must do that ourselves using appendChild( ) or insertBefore( ). For example, here we create and insert a new P element into a document: myDoc = new XML(); newP = myDoc.createElement("P"); myDoc.appendChild(newP); We can combine those steps by using this: myDoc.appendChild(myDoc.createElement("P")); The createElement( ) method cannot be used to create text nodes; use createTextNode( ) instead. See Also XML.appendChild( ), XML.cloneNode( ), XML.createTextNode( ), XML.insertBefore( ) | 
