It seems I found a bug in Axis-1_2RC1: The class org.apache.axis.message.MessageElement does not implement the interface org.w3c.dom.NodeList.
So, the method getElementsByTagName gives a ClassCastException: public NodeList getElementsByTagName(String tagName) { //use this MessageElement class for Nodelist store MessageElement nodelist = new MessageElement(); java.lang.ClassCastException at org.apache.axis.message.MessageElement.getElementsByTagName(MessageElement.java:1813) at org.apache.axis.message.MessageElement.getElementsByTagName(MessageElement.java:1818) Any comments? ===== <Eduardo Issao Ito/> <Summa Technologies/>