Name
Document.createAttributeNS( ) — create an Attr with a name and namespace
Availability
DOM Level 2 Core
Synopsis
Attr createAttributeNS(StringnamespaceURI, StringqualifiedName) throws DOMException;
Arguments
-
namespaceURI The unique identifier of the namespace for the Attr, or
nullfor no namespace.-
qualifiedName The qualified name of the attribute, which should include a namespace prefix, a colon, and a local name.
Returns
A newly created Attr node with the specified name and namespace.
Throws
This method may throw a DOMException with one of the following
code values in the following circumstances:
-
INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR qualifiedNamecontains an illegal character.-
NAMESPACE_ERR qualifiedNameis malformed, or there is a mismatch betweenqualifiedNameandnamespaceURI.-
NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR The implementation does not support XML documents and therefore does not implement this method.
Description
createAttributeNS( ) is just like
createAttribute( ) except that the created Attr
node has a name and namespace instead of just a name. This method is
useful only with
XML
documents that use namespaces.