> Do you have > > a public URL of the .NET web service? > > https://beanstream.com/soap/ProcessTransaction.wsdl > This test script <?php $soap = new SoapClient('https://beanstream.com/soap/ProcessTransaction.wsdl'); $result = $soap->TransactionProcess('<a />'); echo nl2br(htmlspecialchars(print_r($result, 1))); ?> returns: <response><trnId></trnId><trnApproved>0</trnApproved><messageId>0</messageId ><messageText>Invalid merchant id (merchant_id = 0)</messageText><trnAuthCode></trnAuthCode></response> According to the WSDL, the return data type is a simple string. So the web service is returning XML, no matter which technology you use. So it's neither PHP's not .NET's fault :-) However since you are using PHP, you may want to use SimpleXML to parse the XML. --Christian -- PHP Soap Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php