Availability
DOM Level 2 Core
Synopsis
DocumentType createDocumentType(String qualifiedName,
String publicId,
String systemId)
throws DOMException;
Arguments
qualifiedName
The name of the document type. If you are using XML namespaces, this
may be a qualified name that specifies a namespace prefix and a local
name separated by a colon.
publicId
The public identifier of the document type, or
null.
systemId
The system identifier of the document type, or
null. This argument typically specifies the local
filename of a DTD file.
Returns
A new DocumentType object with an
ownerDocument property of null.
Throws
This method may throw a DOMException with one of the following
code values:
INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR
qualifiedName contains an illegal
character.
NAMESPACE_ERR
qualifiedName is malformed. NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR
The current implementation does not support XML documents and has not
implemented this method.
Description
This method creates a new DocumentType node. This method specifies
only an external subset of the document type. As of Level 2, the DOM
standard does not provide any way for specifying an internal subset,
and the returned DocumentType does not define any Entity or Notation
nodes. This method is useful only with XML documents and may not be
supported by HTML-only implementations.