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title: "xml:create — Create XML"
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# xml:create — Create XML

XML:CREATE generates a XML document according to the XML 1.0 Specification.

The given variable references the root element and must be an array comprised of the following items:

				Key   Description
				--------------------------------------------------------------
				name  tag name
				attr  array of attributes with associated name and value pairs
				nodes array of child nodes including cdata parts
				cdata cdata value (optionally instead of 'nodes')

### Attributes
| Name | Type | Default | Description |
| ---- | ---- | ------- | ----------- |
| var | var |  | Variable name |
| var_result | var |  | Result variable name |

### Children
- (none)

### Parents
- (not restricted in the reference)

### Result
- binding: var_result; type: string

### Examples

```xml
<array var="root">
	<item key="name">html</item>

	<array key="attr">
		<item key="xmlns">http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml</item>
		<item key="xml:lang">en</item>
	</array>
</array>

<output>
	<xml:create var="root"/>
</output>

<!--
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"/>
-->
```