XmlCreateChild

This function creates a new child node under an XML node.

Syntax

xmlnode xmlCreateChild ( xmlnode parentNode, string tagName )

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Method: xmlnode:createChild(...)

Required Arguments

• parentNode: the xmlnode you want to create a new child node under.
• tagName: the type of the child node that will be created.

Returns

Returns the created xmlnode if successful, false otherwise.

Example

This example allows a player to use the command 'createfile' to create an .xml file.

-- Creates a file named "new.xml" with root node "newroot" and childnode "newchild".
function createFileHandler()
local RootNode = xmlCreateFile("new.xml"," newroot")
local NewNode = xmlCreateChild(RootNode, "newchild")
xmlSaveFile(RootNode)
xmlUnloadFile(RootNode)
end

addCommandHandler("createfile", createFileHandler)

See Also

• xmlCopyFile
• xmlCreateChild
• xmlCreateFile
• xmlDestroyNode
• xmlFindChild
• xmlLoadFile
• xmlLoadString
• xmlNodeGetAttribute
• xmlNodeGetAttributes
• xmlNodeGetChildren
• xmlNodeGetName
• xmlNodeGetParent
• xmlNodeGetValue
• xmlNodeSetAttribute
• xmlNodeSetName
• xmlNodeSetValue
• xmlSaveFile
• xmlUnloadFile