DOMImplementation::createDocument

(PHP 5, PHP 7)

Creates a DOMDocument object of the specified type with its document element

public DOMDocument DOMImplementation::createDocument ([ string $namespaceURI = NULL [, string $qualifiedName = NULL [, DOMDocumentType $doctype = NULL ]]] )

Creates a DOMDocument object of the specified type with its document element.

Parameters:

namespaceURI

The namespace URI of the document element to create.

qualifiedName

The qualified name of the document element to create.

doctype

The type of document to create or NULL.

Returns:

A new DOMDocument object. If namespaceURI, qualifiedName, and doctype are null, the returned DOMDocument is empty with no document element

Exception:

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

Raised if there is an error with the namespace, as determined by namespaceURI and qualifiedName.

This method may be called statically, but will issue an E_STRICT error.