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<h1 class="refname">DOMElement::__construct</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">DOMElement::__construct</span> — <span class="dc-title">
Creates a new DOMElement object
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<div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-domelement.construct-description">
<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
<div class="methodsynopsis dc-description">
<span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>DOMElement::__construct</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$name</code></span>
[, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$value</code></span>
[, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$namespaceURI</code></span>
]] )</div>
<p class="para rdfs-comment">
Creates a new <a href="class.domelement.html" class="classname">DOMElement</a> object. This object is read only.
It may be appended to a document, but additional nodes may not be appended to this node until
the node is associated with a document. To create a writeable node, use
<a href="domdocument.createelement.html" class="xref">DOMDocument::createElement</a> or
<a href="domdocument.createelementns.html" class="xref">DOMDocument::createElementNS</a>.
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<div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-domelement.construct-parameters">
<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
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<dt>
<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">name</code></em></span>
<dd>
<p class="para">
The tag name of the element. When also passing in namespaceURI, the element name
may take a prefix to be associated with the URI.
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</dd>
</dt>
<dt>
<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">value</code></em></span>
<dd>
<p class="para">
The value of the element.
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</dd>
</dt>
<dt>
<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">namespaceURI</code></em></span>
<dd>
<p class="para">
A namespace URI to create the element within a specific namespace.
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</dd>
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<div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-domelement.construct-examples">
<h3 class="title">Examples</h3>
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<div class="example" id="example-5421">
<p><strong>Example #1 Creating a new DOMElement</strong></p>
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<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /><br />$dom </span><span style="color: #007700">= new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">DOMDocument</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'1.0'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'iso-8859-1'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$element </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$dom</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">appendChild</span><span style="color: #007700">(new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">DOMElement</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'root'</span><span style="color: #007700">));<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$element_ns </span><span style="color: #007700">= new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">DOMElement</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'pr:node1'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'thisvalue'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'http://xyz'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$element</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">appendChild</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$element_ns</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br />echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$dom</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">saveXML</span><span style="color: #007700">(); </span><span style="color: #FF8000">/* <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><br /><root><pr:node1 xmlns:pr="http://xyz">thisvalue</pr:node1></root> */<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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<div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-domelement.construct-seealso">
<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
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<ul class="simplelist">
<li class="member"> <span class="methodname"><a href="domdocument.createelement.html" class="methodname" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">DOMDocument::createElement()</a> - Create new element node</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="methodname"><a href="domdocument.createelementns.html" class="methodname" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">DOMDocument::createElementNS()</a> - Create new element node with an associated namespace</span></li>
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