XML in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Name

createDocumentType: qualifiedName, publicId, systemId(2)

Synopsis

Creates an empty DocumentType node that is not associated with any document. No entity declarations or notations are available in this new, empty DocumentType object. No support currently exists in the DOM to populate this object.

Arguments

qualifiedName: DOMString

The qualified name of the document type to be created.

publicId: DOMString

The external subset’s public identifier.

systemId: DOMString

The system identifier (URI) of the external subset to be created.

Return value

A new DocumentType object with the ownerDocument attribute set to null.

Exceptions

INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR

Indicates that the qualifiedName parameter has a malformed XML identifier.

NAMESPACE_ERR

Raised if the qualified name is malformed.

Java binding

public DocumentType createDocumentType(String qualifiedName,
         String publicId, String systemId) throws DOMException;