Hi Michael, > To save it to the database your field in the database needs > to defined as blob or you can try out this class (mysql->xml->mysql): > http://phpclasses.tmoby.com/browse/package/782.html Well, I'm pretty sure you can store data like this in a simple varchar column. Besides, I don't think this is related to my problem at all :/ > > As I can see from your code you are using php5 so you might > also look at http://dk2.php.net/manual/en/ref.simplexml.php > It automatically converts a xml document to a php object and > back again. > Aren't the PHP SOAP functions supposed to do that on their own ? If I have to parse the SOAP response myself and map it to an object, there's no point in using the SOAP server functions. It boils down to re-writing a large part of the SOAP server... Doesn't it ? Thanks for the answer anyway :) Guillaume -- PHP Soap Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php