Question

I want an asmx webservice with a method GetPeople() that returns the following XML (NOT a SOAP response):

<People>

    <Person>
        <FirstName>Sara</FirstName>
        <LastName>Smith</LastName>
    </Person>

    <Person>
        <FirstName>Bill</FirstName>
        <LastName>Wilson</LastName>
    </Person>

</People>

How can I do this?

Answer 1

I see I can set the return type of the method to XmlDocument. This seems to work.

[WebMethod]
public XmlDocument ReturnXml()
{
    XmlDocument dom = new XmlDocument();

    XmlElement people = dom.CreateElement("People");
    dom.AppendChild(people);

    XmlElement person = dom.CreateElement("Person");
    people.AppendChild(person);

    XmlElement firstName = dom.CreateElement("FirstName");
    person.AppendChild(firstName);

    XmlText text = dom.CreateTextNode("Bob");
    firstName.AppendChild(text);



    // load some XML ...
    return dom;
}