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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript
Subject: Re: Then xmlns attribute in the XHTML DOM
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2016 20:29:53 +0200
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Stefan Ram wrote:

> span = document.createElement( 'span' );
> span.setAttribute( "xmlns", "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" );
> document.getElementById( "example" ).appendChild( span );
>  
>   , or
> 
> span = document.createElementNS( "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml", "span" );
> document.getElementById( "example" ).appendChild( span )
> 
>   , or even just
> 
> span = document.createElement( 'span' );
> document.getElementById( "example" ).appendChild( span )
> 
>   . Which of these three approaches is correct?

The latter two.

>   Especially, I'd like to know whether the last one, the one
>   that does no mention »w3.org«, already is correct.)

It is:

<https://www.w3.org/TR/2015/REC-dom-20151119/#dom-document-createelement>

Next time, RTFSpec.  (It is not the first time that you should have done 
that before you posted.)

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