Thanks

That seems a good way to go about it - the result is this (I have left the right hand end > of the tags off so that the message is sendable here):

<?xml version = "1.0" encoding="Windows-1252" standalone="yes"?>
<VFPData>
	<response>
		<text>Customer was not found</text>
	</response>
</VFPData>

I guess though my question is - why does the XML have to be in the form of a field in a VFPData object - would this do the same job without the VFPData wrapper?

<?xml version = "1.0" encoding="Windows-1252" standalone="yes"?>
   <text>Customer was not found</text>