Web Services return string: An XML string

[DotNetGruven]

We have a Web Service that returns an XML string. The client is getting the
returned value with the angle brackets changed to &gt and &lt.

It looks like the 'payload' is HTML.encoded. Is that the default action of
a web service?

Is that spec'ed somewhere and can it be changed?

I suspose the client s/w just needs to HTML.unencode() it.

TIA
geo

 

[ashelley]

We have a Web Service that returns an XML string. The client is getting the
returned value with the angle brackets changed to &gt and &lt.

It looks like the 'payload' is HTML.encoded. Is that the default action of
a web service?

Is that spec'ed somewhere and can it be changed?

I suspose the client s/w just needs to HTML.unencode() it.

TIA
geo

I return xml as strings from web services with no problems. I assume
that the webservice itself is changing the string.

-Adam

 

[[MSFT]]

Hi Geo,

How did you send the XML string from your web service, with a string or
XMLNode object? Can you give a sample on this. Normally, we can pass a
XMLNode or XMLDocument object from a web service, and this won't cause such
a problem. For other objects, there may be some &gt and &lt during Web
service XML encoding.

Luke

 

[DotNetGruven]

Changing the return value of the web method from string to XmlDocument fixed
the problem.

Not only that, but the returned characters are nicely formated with great
indentation.

Thanks,
Geo