Curt Arnold The "getNamedItem(name)" method returns null of the specified name did not identify any node in the map. Retrieve the second employee and create a NamedNodeMap listing of the attributes of the last child. Once the list is created an invocation of the "getNamedItem(name)" method is done with name="lang". This name does not match any names in the list therefore the method should return null. 2002-06-09