IBM The method createElementNS raises a NAMESPACE_ERR if the qualifiedName has a prefix that is "xml" and the namespaceURI is different from http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace Invoke the createElementNS method on this DOMImplementation object with the qualifiedName as xml:root and namespaceURI as http://www.w3.org/xml/1998/namespace Check if the NAMESPACE_ERR exception is thrown. Neil Delima 2002-04-30