CREATEELEMENT

The CREATEELEMENT function creates an element node in the specified DOM document. The element name is specified by tagname. The created element can be converted into a generic node using MAKENODE and appended to the DOM tree using APPENDCHILD.

Syntax

DBMS_XMLDOM.createElement (
   doc     IN DBMS_XMLDOM.DOMDOCUMENT,
   tagname IN VARCHAR2);

Parameters

Return value

Handle of the DBMS_XMLDOM.DOMELEMENT element node.

Usage instructions

The created element has not been mounted to the document tree. You must use MAKENODE to convert it into a DOMNODE, and then use APPENDCHILD to append it to a parent node.

Examples

DECLARE
  doc  DBMS_XMLDOM.DOMDOCUMENT;
  elem DBMS_XMLDOM.DOMELEMENT;
BEGIN
  doc := DBMS_XMLDOM.newDOMDocument;
  elem := DBMS_XMLDOM.createElement(doc, 'item');
  DBMS_XMLDOM.freeDocument(doc);
END;
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