abstract public SOAPElement addAttribute(Name name,
    String value) throws SOAPException
Adds an attribute with the specified name and value to this
SOAPElement object.

 abstract public SOAPElement addChildElement(Name name) throws SOAPException
Creates a new SOAPElement object initialized with the
given Name object and adds the new element to this
SOAPElement object.

 abstract public SOAPElement addChildElement(String localName) throws SOAPException
Creates a new SOAPElement object initialized with the
given String object and adds the new element to this
SOAPElement object.

 abstract public SOAPElement addChildElement(SOAPElement element) throws SOAPException
Add a SOAPElement as a child of this
SOAPElement instance. The SOAPElement
is expected to be created by a
SOAPElementFactory. Callers should not rely on the
element instance being added as is into the XML
tree. Implementations could end up copying the content
of the SOAPElement passed into an instance of
a different SOAPElement implementation. For
instance if addChildElement() is called on a
SOAPHeader, element will be copied
into an instance of a SOAPHeaderElement.

The fragment rooted in element is either added
as a whole or not at all, if there was an error.

The fragment rooted in element cannot contain
elements named "Envelope", "Header" or "Body" and in the SOAP
namespace. Any namespace prefixes present in the fragment
should be fully resolved using appropriate namespace
declarations within the fragment itself.

 abstract public SOAPElement addChildElement(String localName,
    String prefix) throws SOAPException
Creates a new SOAPElement object initialized with the
specified local name and prefix and adds the new element to this
SOAPElement object.

 abstract public SOAPElement addChildElement(String localName,
    String prefix,
    String uri) throws SOAPException
Creates a new SOAPElement object initialized with the
specified local name, prefix, and URI and adds the new element to this
SOAPElement object.

 abstract public SOAPElement addNamespaceDeclaration(String prefix,
    String uri) throws SOAPException
Adds a namespace declaration with the specified prefix and URI to this
SOAPElement object.

 abstract public SOAPElement addTextNode(String text) throws SOAPException
Creates a new Text object initialized with the given
String and adds it to this SOAPElement object.

 abstract public Iterator getAllAttributes()
Returns an iterator over all of the attribute names in
this SOAPElement object. The iterator can be
used to get the attribute names, which can then be passed to
the method getAttributeValue to retrieve the
value of each attribute.

 abstract public String getAttributeValue(Name name)
Returns the value of the attribute with the specified
name.

 abstract public Iterator getChildElements()
Returns an iterator over all the immediate content of
this element. This includes Text objects as well
as SOAPElement objects.

 abstract public Iterator getChildElements(Name name)
Returns an iterator over all the child elements with the
specified name.

 abstract public Name getElementName()
Returns the name of this SOAPElement
object.

 abstract public String getEncodingStyle()
Returns the encoding style for this 
SOAPElement object.

 abstract public Iterator getNamespacePrefixes()
Returns an iterator of namespace prefixes. The iterator
can be used to get the namespace prefixes, which can then be
passed to the method getNamespaceURI to retrieve
the URI of each namespace.

 abstract public String getNamespaceURI(String prefix)
Returns the URI of the namespace that has the given
prefix.

 abstract public Iterator getVisibleNamespacePrefixes()
Returns an Iterator over the namespace prefix
Strings visible to this element. The prefixes returned by
this iterator can be passed to the method getNamespaceURI()
to retrieve the URI of each namespace.

 abstract public boolean removeAttribute(Name name)
Removes the attribute with the specified name.

 abstract public  void removeContents()
Detaches all children of this SOAPElement.

This method is useful for rolling back the construction of partially
completed SOAPHeaders and SOAPBodys in
reparation for sending a fault when an error condition is detected. It is
also useful for recycling portions of a document within a SOAP message.

 abstract public boolean removeNamespaceDeclaration(String prefix)
Removes the namespace declaration corresponding to the
given prefix.

 abstract public  void setEncodingStyle(String encodingStyle) throws SOAPException
Sets the encoding style for this SOAPElement
object to one specified.