Thank you for this. Really useful stuff which I am sure I'll be using as this work progresses.

The script is matching a SOAP response to an expected SOAP response XML file. The expected SOAP response can have these sort of placeholders to match actual values (strings, numbers, dates) in the response that can be of variable length, and also values that may or may not be there - thus the requirement of the ${=CharFormat "X*"} placeholder. Much of the work is complete. Much appreciation and credit goes to the work by G. Wade Johnson in HTTPTest.

Thanks again.