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new

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new( arg = UNDEFINED, parent=nil, context=nil ) public

Constructor

arg	if not supplied, will be set to the default value. If a String, the name of this object will be set to the argument. If an Element, the object will be shallowly cloned; name, attributes, and namespaces will be copied. Children will `not` be copied.
parent	if supplied, must be a Parent, and will be used as the parent of this object.
context	If supplied, must be a hash containing context items. Context items include:

:respect_whitespace the value of this is :all or an array of

strings being the names of the elements to respect
whitespace for.  Defaults to :+all+.

:compress_whitespace the value can be :all or an array of

strings being the names of the elements to ignore whitespace on.
Overrides :+respect_whitespace+.

:ignore_whitespace_nodes the value can be :all or an array

of strings being the names of the elements in which to ignore
whitespace-only nodes.  If this is set, Text nodes which contain only
whitespace will not be added to the document tree.

:raw can be :all, or an array of strings being the names of

the elements to process in raw mode.  In raw mode, special
characters in text is not converted to or from entities.

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# File lib/rexml/element.rb, line 58
    def initialize( arg = UNDEFINED, parent=nil, context=nil )
      super(parent)

      @elements = Elements.new(self)
      @attributes = Attributes.new(self)
      @context = context

      if arg.kind_of? String
        self.name = arg
      elsif arg.kind_of? Element
        self.name = arg.expanded_name
        arg.attributes.each_attribute{ |attribute|
          @attributes << Attribute.new( attribute )
        }
        @context = arg.context
      end
    end

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