cniCreateElementAsLastChild

Creates a new syntax element as the last child of the specified syntax element.

cniCreateElementAsLastChild should not be used when creating a message body folder (such as XML, XMLNS, MRM, BLOB), because it does not associate an owning parser with the folder. To create a message body folder, you can use any of the following functions:
   cniCreateElementAsFirstChildUsingParser
   cniCreateElementAsLastChildUsingParser
   cniCreateElementAfterUsingParser
   cniCreateElementBeforeUsingParser
When the message body folder has been created, cniCreateElementAsLastChild can be used to create elements under the folder. cniCreateElementAsLastChild can be used because the parser, which is associated with the message body folder, is inherited.

Syntax

CciElement* cniCreateElementAsLastChild(
  int*         returnCode,
  CciElement*  targetElement);

Parameters

returnCode
The return code from the function (output).
Possible return codes are:
  • CCI_SUCCESS
  • CCI_EXCEPTION
  • CCI_INV_ELEMENT_OBJECT
targetElement
The address of the element object (input).

Return values

If successful, the address of the new element object is returned. Otherwise, a value of zero (CCI_NULL_ADDR) is returned and the returnCode parameter indicates the reason for the error.

Example

    CciElement* lastChild = cniCreateElementAsLastChild(&rc, outRootElement);
    cniSetElementName(&rc, lastChild, elementName);