>If I have to write a parsing routine, then what is the point of the SOAP/XML?

The intention is you don't need to parse this xml but get back an object or collection on the client side, whatever the return value is.

If you create a web service with the Soap Toolkit this should work just fine. Consuming web services seems more often to fail than to work.

I saw you also already tried wwSoap from West Wind, that would be the alternative recommendation to MSSoap.Soapclient30.

What webservice do you try to use? Maybe someone has already solved that one.

Bye, Olaf.