Hi Richard, It's not a SOAP service, and I've actually decided to have ask the client to upgrade their server software before continuing. But for the sake of study: > Depending upon your requirement, you could use simplexml_load_string() to convert an XML string into a native PHP object rather than manually parsing the text of the XML string. I looked up simplexml_load_string() and the manual seems to say that it's only available in PHP5. Can you clarify? Marc -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php