Hi Michel,

>So far, so good, from the client, to the Web Service, to the Web Server, back to the Web Service and back to the client, I can obtain my XML. However, I have lost the UTF-8 conversion. Anyone knows why?<

I'd add the encoding method to the HTTP header:

Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8

and in the XML declaration

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> 

Christof