Good suggestion - I didn't know about that one. Alas, it does not work.

Thanks anyway...

>Hi,
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>I'm calling a web service which requires a parameter of type "s:hexBinary" according to their WSDL. The parameter label is "EncodedData"
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>When I try to send the parameter as a string from VFP I get the client error: "Type conversion failure for element EncodedData"
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>Any idea how I can get around this?
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>Does STRCONV(cString,15) help ?
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>Regards,
>Viv