IBM The method setPrefix raises a NAMESPACE_ERR if the specified prefix is "xml" and the namespaceURI of this node is different from "http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace". Invoke the setPrefix method on this Element object with namespaceURI that is different from http://www..w3.org/xml/1998/namespace and a prefix whose values is xml. Check if the NAMESPACE_ERR was thrown. Neil Delima 2002-04-28