# XMLNew

Creates a new empty XML Object

## Method Signature

```
XMLNew(caseSensitive=[boolean])
```

### Arguments

| Argument        | Type      | Required | Description                                                                          | Default |
| --------------- | --------- | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------- |
| `caseSensitive` | `boolean` | `true`   | Whether the identifiers in the XML document ( e.g. dot notation ) are case sensitive | `false` |

## Examples

### The simple xmlnew example

Here, We created myXml by using xmlNew function. Then created root node(sampleXml) for myXml and set the rootnode text

```java
<bx:set myXml = xmlNew() >
<bx:set myXml.XMLROOT = xmlelemnew( myXml, "sampleXml" ) >
<bx:set myXml.SAMPLEXML.XMLTEXT = "This is root node text" >
<bx:dump var="#myXml#">
```

### Additional Examples

[Run Example](https://try.boxlang.io/?code=eJyryM2JT8lPLs1NzStRsFWIyM3xSy3X0LTmSinNLdBQqECWBooCAJUEEBk%3D)

```java
xml_document = XmlNew();
dump( xml_document );

```

## Related

* [XMLChildPos](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/xml/xmlchildpos)
* [XMLElemNew](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/xml/xmlelemnew)
* [XMLFormat](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/xml/xmlformat)
* [XMLGetNodeType](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/xml/xmlgetnodetype)
* [XMLParse](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/xml/xmlparse)
* [XMLSearch](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/xml/xmlsearch)
* [XMLTransform](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/xml/xmltransform)
* [XMLValidate](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/xml/xmlvalidate)