lly prescribed by a SOAP specification. This interface serves as the
 base interface for those objects that are specifically prescribed by a SOAP
 specification.
 <p>
 Methods in this interface that are required to return SAAJ specific objects
 may "silently" replace nodes in the tree as required to successfully return
 objects of the correct type. See <a href="../../../jakarta/xml/soap/SOAPElement.html#getChildElements--"><code>getChildElements()</code></a> and
 <a href="../../../jakarta/xml/soap/package-s