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XMLWriter::startElementNs

(PHP 5 >= 5.1.2, PHP 7, PECL xmlwriter >= 0.1.0)

XMLWriter::startElementNs -- xmlwriter_start_element_ns — Create start namespaced element tag

Object oriented style

public XMLWriter::startElementNs ( string|null $prefix , string $name , string|null $namespace ) : bool

Procedural style

xmlwriter_start_element_ns ( XMLWriter $writer , string|null $prefix , string $name , string|null $namespace ) : bool

Starts a namespaced element.

writer: Only for procedural calls. The XMLWriter instance that is being modified. This object is returned from a call to xmlwriter_open_uri() or xmlwriter_open_memory().
prefix: The namespace prefix. If prefix is null, the namespace will be omitted.
name: The element name.
namespace: The namespace URI. If namespace is null, the namespace declaration will be omitted.

Returns true on success or false on failure.

Version	Description
8.0.0	`writer` expects an XMLWriter instance now; previously, a resource was expected.