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MarkLogic 9 Product Documentation
NodeBuilder.addElement

NodeBuilder.addElement(
   name as String,
   [content as String|Function],
   [namespace as String?]
) as This NodeBuilder object

Summary

Add an XML element node to the node tree the builder is building.

Parameters
name The name of the element. This can be either a simple name, if the element has no namespace, or a QName.
content The contents of the element. If the argument is a string, the element will content that string as a text node. If the argument is a function, the function will be evaluated with the builder as its argument.
namespace The namespace URI associated with the prefix in the name.

Usage Notes

Element nodes may only be added to element nodes or document nodes.

To add a namespaced element, give a prefixed name as the first argument and a namespace URI as the final argument.

Example

const builder = new NodeBuilder();
builder.addElement('ex:example', 'element content here',
       'http://example.com/ns1');
builder.toNode();

// Returns an XML element node equivalent to the following:
// <ex:example xmlns:ex="http://example.com/ns1">element content here</ex:example>

Example

function addCommonAttrs(b) {
  b.addAttribute('class','body');
  b.addAttribute('xml:lang','en','http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace');
  b.addAttribute('id', 'id_' + xdmp.random() );
};

const builder = new NodeBuilder();
builder.startElement('root');
  builder.addElement('child', addCommonAttrs);
  builder.addElement('child', addCommonAttrs);
builder.endElement();
builder.toNode();

// Returns the following XML (whitespace added for readability):
// <root>
//   <child class="body" xml:lang="en" id="id_14938401739084225878" 
//       xmlns:xml="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace"/>
//   <child class="body" xml:lang="en" id="id_602182576263533813" 
//       xmlns:xml="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace"/>
// </root>

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