# DOMElement->__construct()

(PHP 5)

DOMElement->__construct() — Creates a new DOMElement object

### Description

DOMElement
__construct ( string `$name` [, string `$value` [, string `$namespaceURI` ]] )

Creates a new DOMElement object. This object is read only. It may be appended to a document, but additional nodes may not be appended to this node until the node is associated with a document. To create a writeable node, use DOMDocument->createElement() or DOMDocument->createElementNS().

### Parameters

`name`

  The tag name of the element. When also passing in namespaceURI, the element name may take a prefix to be associated with the URI.

`value`

  The value of the element.

`namespaceURI`

  A namespace URI to create the element within a specific namespace.

### Examples

Example#1 Creating a new DOMElement

`<?php
$dom = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'iso-8859-1');
$element = $dom->appendChild(new DOMElement('root'));
$element_ns = new DOMElement('pr:node1', 'thisvalue', 'http://xyz');
$element->appendChild($element_ns);
echo $dom->saveXML(); /* <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<root><pr:node1 xmlns:pr="http://xyz">thisvalue</pr:node1></root> */
?>`

### See Also

- DOMDocument->createElement()
- DOMDocument->createElementNS()