Method createDocument of interface DOMImplementation

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createDocument (method )

Owning interface and usage:

DOMImplementation.createDocument(namespaceURI, qualifiedName, doctype)

Member of these other interfaces:

none

Description:

Creates an XML Document object of the specified type with its document element.

Parameters:

DOMString namespaceURI

The namespace URI of the document element to create.

DOMString qualifiedName

The qualified name of the document element to be created.

The type of document to be created or null. (When doctype is not null, its Node.ownerDocument attribute is set to the document being created.)

Returns:

Document - A new Document object.

Exceptions:

DOMException INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified qualified name contains an illegal character.

DOMException NAMESPACE_ERR: Raised if the qualifiedName is malformed, if the qualifiedName has a prefix and the namespaceURI is null, or if the qualifiedName has a prefix that is "xml" and the namespaceURI is different from "http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace".

DOMException WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: Raised if doctype has already been used with a different document or was created from a different implementation.

DOMException NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: May be raised if the implementation does not support the feature "XML" and the language exposed through the Document does not support XML Namespaces (such as [HTML4]).

Example:

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