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| '''Summary'''
|Creates a new database with the database specified {{Code|name}} with and, optionally, an optional initial {{Code|input}} , and opens it. An existing database will be overwritten.<br />The input may either be a reference to a single XML document, a directory, a remote URL, or a string containing XML:
* {{Code|name}} must be a [[#Valid Names|valid database name]]
* several additional [[Options#Create Options|Create Options]] can be set to influence the creation process.