Hi

Thanks for the reply.
I managed to get to the point of seeing the real exceptions and
working around them yesterday.

It was very confusing. For example processDocumentMetadataRetrieve
threw a type casting exception on this line

Element param = (Element) param_list.getFirstChild();

After much blood sweat and tears (including coding around this and
several similar problems) I think I have identified the root cause. I
still have to check this properly.

I believe that the SOAP envelope sent to the server (the XML string)
must NOT have spaces or line breaks between the elements.

Hence the manual is a little misleading!

Steve

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Steve Jones
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University of Waikato
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Hamilton, New Zealand
stevej@cs.waikato.ac.nz