Surely the documentation for the SOAP client toolkit describes how to recover returned values.
If for some reason that is impossible then you will have to learn the basics of XML related standard library classes. A good idea for any would-be Java programmer given the widespread use of XML. There are two possible approaches:
1. parse the XML document into a DOM (document object model) and use the methods in org.w3c.dom to locate the desired element and extract the content.
2. use the XPATH methods in the javax.xml.xpath package to define a path to the desired element(s).
Bill
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