IBM The createDocument method should throw 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. Call the createDocument on this DOMImplementation with namespaceURI that is http://www.w3.org/xml/1998/namespace and a qualifiedName that has the prefix xml Check if the NAMESPACE_ERR is thrown. Neil Delima 2002-04-24