DOMElement::__construct

Creates a new DOMElement object

&reftitle.description; public `DOMElement::__construct` `string` `qualifiedName` ``string``null```value`&null; `string` `namespace`""

Creates a new `DOMElement` 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 domdocument.createelement or domdocument.createelementns.

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`qualifiedName`

- The tag name of the element. When also passing in namespaceURI, the element name may take a prefix to be associated with the URI.

`value`

- The value of the element.

`namespace`

- A namespace URI to create the element within a specific namespace.

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### Creating a new DOMElement

    <?php

    $dom = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'iso-8859-1');
    $element = $dom->appendChild(new DOMElement('root'));
    $element_ns = new DOMElement('pr:node1', 'thisvalue', 'http://xyz');
    $element->appendChild($element_ns);
    echo $dom->saveXML(); /* <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <root><pr:node1 xmlns:pr="http://xyz">thisvalue</pr:node1></root> */

    ?>

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- `DOMDocument::createElement`
- `DOMDocument::createElementNS`