> Hmm, I'm using the javax.xml.soap.SOAPBodyElement and
> org.w3c.dom.Document classes so I'd be suprised if there was a bug with
> these. I suppose it might be the javax.xml.transform.Transformer class
> I'm using. I've tried both the default one that comes with WebLogic 8.1
> and Xalan but both exhibit the same problem.
I'm not familiar with javax.xml.soap.SOAPBodyElement, but
org.w3c.dom.Document is an interface. The implementation is provided by
the XML parser, which can be specified by JAXP.
It may be helpful if you could provide a SSCCE, although that may be
difficult in this case.
Ray

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