IBM The method createAttributeNS 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 createAttributeNS method on a new 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