microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet.webservices

Daniel Johansson

8/20/2003 2:30:00 PM

Hello

Have you tried to put the xmlDocument inside a dataset instead?
DataSet.ReadXml("nameofxml");
or pass the document as an XmlElement
XmlDocument.DocumentElement;
// Daniel
"Marlon Baskin" <marlon.baskin@turner.com> skrev i meddelandet
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> I built a web service that accepts an XML document of type
> System.XML.XMLDocument and returns an XML document of the
> same type. But when I pass the XML document to the web
> service from a client app it throws an
> InvalidCastException:
>
> An unhandled exception of
> type 'System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException'
> occurred in system.web.services.dll
>
> Additional information: Server was unable to read
> request. --> There is an error in XML document (1, 375). --
> > Specified cast is not valid.
>
> Is the System.XML.XMLDocument class not a valid type for
> passing to web services? Is there a better way to pass
> weak-typed XML to the web service (other than just passing
> it as a string)? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!