IBM The method getNamespaceURI returns the namespace URI of this node, or null if it is unspecified For nodes of any type other than ELEMENT_NODE and ATTRIBUTE_NODE and nodes created with a DOM Level 1 method, such as createElement from the Document interface, this is always null. Ceate two new element nodes and atribute nodes, with and without namespace prefixes. Retreive their namespaceURI's using getNamespaceURI and verrify if it is correct. Neil Delima 2002-04-28