Elements (2)

CL-USER> (stp:make-element "list")
#.(STP:ELEMENT :LOCAL-NAME "list")

Namespace URI is an optional argument:
CL-USER> (stp:make-element "z:list" "http://namespace")
#.(STP:ELEMENT
   :LOCAL-NAME "list"
   :NAMESPACE-PREFIX "z"
   :NAMESPACE-URI "http://namespace")

It's always Name and URI in that order.

URI defaults to "".