Tom Vande Stouwe MCSD.net
8/20/2003 6:51:00 PM
Can you say 'Dataset'?
Deserialize your XML to a DATASET and pass them around.
Tom
--
==========================================
= Tom Vande Stouwe MCSD.net, MCAD.net, MCP
= 45Wallstreet.com (www.45wallstreet.com)
= (803)-345-5001
==========================================
= If you are not making any mistakes
..= ..you are not trying hard enough.
==========================================
"JC" <jclark_00@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:2bc191ef.0308151812.232c6c6b@posting.google.com...
> Hi there, I am working on an application that will expose a Web
> Service using VS.NET. Internally, the web service will make calls to
> another web service, will apply certain business rules to the
> responses and modify the returned XML accordingly.
>
> My question is surrounding the definition of my web service. I
> already have the remote web service in place that accepts a certain
> format of XML document, and returns back a certain format of XML
> document. I would like to have my input and output be of the same
> format (with the exception of the changes I will make as a result of
> the business rules). With all that in mind, it seems silly to have to
> write my own definition of input and output parameters for my web
> service, since it already exists in the remote web service. Is there
> any way that I can declare my input and output parameters just to be
> an XML document, so the declaration of my own web service will
> basically say "don't worry about the format - it's XML, and it's
> defined elsewhere".
>
> Otherwise I have to explicitly define the structure of the parameters,
> so that the XML that comes back from the remote server has to be
> passed through my individual parameters, only for it to be serialized
> back to XML as I return the data - just seems unnecessary.
>
> Any suggestions?