microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet.webservices

Pierre Greborio

1/14/2003 9:33:00 AM

Hi Rein,
in your case I suggest to retun an instance of class, so that it is easier
to use at client side also. If you can't do it, you could use
System.Web.HttpUtilty.HtmlDecode.

Pierre

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"Rein Petersen" <rmpetersen@hotmail.bogus.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Folks,
>
> I'm having a good experience with Web services and ASP.NET however, I'd
like
> to return data other than a string or some other basic type. Ideally, I'd
> like to return an XML document but if the method return type is string,
the
> enclosed data (which is xml) is escaped. An example response looks like:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <string xmlns="http://myDomain.com/webservices"&g... version="1.0"
> encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
> <!DOCTYPE pap PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD PAP 1.0//EN"
> "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/pap_1.0.dtd...
> <pap>
> <push-message push-id="test"
> deliver-before-timestamp="2003-01-15T04:33:09Z"
> deliver-after-timestamp="2003-01-14T04:33:09Z" source-reference="test">
> <address address-value="55555" />
> </push-message>
> </pap></string>
>
> Really, its just a web service proxy that I've built (which returns the
> response document from another service) so it would be better is I could
do
> away with the xml wrapper that my service adds.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Rein
>
>