question: public Element createElement ( StartElement startEvent ) { QName qname = startEvent . getName ( ) ; org . dom4j . QName elemName = createQName ( qname ) ; Element elem = factory . createElement ( elemName ) ; for ( Iterator < Attribute > i = startEvent . getAttributes ( ) ; i . hasNext ( ) ; ) { Attribute attr = i . next ( ) ; elem . addAttribute ( createQName ( attr . getName ( ) ) , attr . getValue ( ) ) ; } for ( Iterator < Namespace > i = startEvent . getNamespaces ( ) ; i . hasNext ( ) ; ) { Namespace ns = i . next ( ) ; elem . addNamespace ( ns . getPrefix ( ) , ns . getNamespaceURI ( ) ) ; } return elem ; }
target:  Constructs a new DOM4J Element from the provided StartElement event. All attributes and namespaces will be added to the returned element.