On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Uche Ogbuji wrote: > Better to fail noisily. I'd go even stronger than warning. raise DOMException(NAMESPACE_ERROR,"Empty namespace is None, not ''") ? Alexandre Fayolle -- LOGILAB, Paris (France). http://www.logilab.com http://www.logilab.fr http://www.logilab.org Narval, the first software agent available as free software (GPL).