Sam,

I don't really understand your question.

<?xml version = "1.0">
<document>
XML is always just a bunch of characters shoved together in a particularly structured fashion.
</document>

Something you posted earlier in the thread was not xml, it was just a blob of text, that would choke on the other side if it was expecting to get a stream of characters that passed parsing by an XMLDOM.

lcXML = "<?xml version = "1.0"><document>test</document>"
loXMLHTTP.Send( lcXML )

Would work if the target URL was expecting that simple of an XML document.

>So is it correct to say that we're not really sending an XML, but rather, we're sending something that looks like an XML... because all we're doing is concatenating bunch of characters together to make it look like an XML string.