Question

I have a web service in .NET which takes an array as input. The Request of the service is seens as

<soap:Body>
<DisplayNames xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">
  <Names>
    <Name>
      <FirstName>string</FirstName>
      <LastName>string</LastName>
    </Name>
    <Name>
      <FirstName>string</FirstName>
      <LastName>string</LastName>
    </Name>
  </Names>
</DisplayNames>

It is possible to remove the parent tag(NAMES) and make the request like below?

<soap:Body>
<DisplayNames xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">
    <Name>
      <FirstName>string</FirstName>
      <LastName>string</LastName>
    </Name>
    <Name>
      <FirstName>string</FirstName>
      <LastName>string</LastName>
    </Name>
</DisplayNames>

Answer 1

Changed my method

from

[WebMethod]
public string DisplayNames(Name[] NameCollection)
{

to

[WebMethod]
public string DisplayNames([XmlElement(“Names”)] Name[] NameCollection)
{