The DOMDocument::createElementNS() function is an inbuilt function in PHP that is used to create a new element node with an associated namespace.
Syntax:
DOMElement DOMDocument::createElementNS( string $namespaceURI, string $qualifiedName, string $value )
Parameters: This function accepts three parameters as mentioned above and described below:
- $namespaceURI: This parameter holds the URI of the namespace.
- $qualifiedName: This parameter holds the qualified name of the element, as prefix:tagname.
- $value: This parameter holds the value of the element. The default value of this parameter is empty or none, means an empty element created.
Return Value: This function returns the new DOMElement on success or FALSE on failure.
Below examples illustrate the DOMDocument::createElementNS() function in PHP:
Example 1:
php
<?php // Create a new DOMDocument $dom = new DOMDocument( '1.0' , 'utf-8' );
// Use createElementNS() function to create new // element node with an associated namespace 'php:function' , 'Welcome to GeeksforGeeks' );
// Append the child element $dom ->appendChild( $element );
// Create XML document and display it echo $dom ->saveXML();
?> |
Output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <php:function xmlns:php="https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/php"> Welcome to GeeksforGeeks </php:function>
Example 2:
php
<?php // Create a new DOMDocument $dom = new DOMDocument( '1.0' , 'utf-8' );
// Use createElementNS() function to create new // element node with an associated namespace 'organization:GeeksforGeeks' , 'A computer science portal' );
'php:link' , 'Welcome to GeeksforGeeks' );
'algo:link' , 'Best coding platform' );
// Append the child element $dom ->appendChild( $element1 );
$dom ->appendChild( $element2 );
$dom ->appendChild( $element3 );
// Create XML document and display it echo $dom ->saveXML();
?> |
Output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <organization:GeeksforGeeks xmlns:organization ="https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/php"> A computer science portal </organization:GeeksforGeeks> <php:link xmlns:php="https://www.geeks.org/html"> Welcome to GeeksforGeeks </php:link> <algo:link xmlns:algo="https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/algo"> Best coding platform </algo:link>
Reference: https://www.php.net/manual/en/domdocument.createelementns.php