All, or any who can help...

I have an application, written in eVC4, that connects to the Internet and 
receives a file via a web service. The request contains the name of the file. 
The WS reads the local file and sends back the byte array (stream). However, 
what I receive is an XML document, with the file (encoded) between 
<base64binary> tags. What I want is to get a raw file (no XML headers or 
formatting). The WS is written in VB.NET. It's very simple: open the file, read 
the file into a byte array, and return the byte array. I just want the byte 
array...not the rest of the XML stuff surrounding the byte array.

Can this be done? How?

Thanks,
Kevin S.