Question

i wrote one method for getting details.in rest client getting response like this.

<string xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/">&lt;Meetings&gt;&#xD;
&lt;Meeting&gt;&#xD;
&lt;Id&gt;1&lt;/Id&gt;&#xD;
&lt;Name&gt;Meeting1&lt;/Name&gt;&#xD;
&lt;Place&gt;SR Nagar&lt;/Place&gt;&#xD;
&lt;Time&gt;12/4/12 12:30pm&lt;/Time&gt;&#xD;
&lt;/Meeting&gt;&#xD;
&lt;Meeting&gt;&#xD;
&lt;Id&gt;2&lt;/Id&gt;&#xD;
&lt;Name&gt;Meeting2&lt;/Name&gt;&#xD;
&lt;Place&gt;Begumpet&lt;/Place&gt;&#xD;
&lt;Time&gt;12/4/12 1:00pm&lt;/Time&gt;&#xD;
&lt;/Meeting&gt;&#xD;
&lt;/Meetings&gt;&#xD;
</string>

in rendered html getting proper.

<Meetings> <Meeting> <Id>1</Id> <Name>Meeting1</Name> <Place>SR Nagar</Place> <Time>12/4/12 12:30pm</Time> </Meeting> <Meeting> <Id>2</Id> <Name>Meeting2</Name> <Place>Begumpet</Place> <Time>12/4/12 1:00pm</Time> </Meeting> </Meetings>

How to handle it in code in wcf to avoid <

Answer 1

Your service operation returns string and you are writing XML to that string. It will always look like that and browser shows it correctly only because it hides string tag and unescapes the content.

To return real XML you must not use string as return value. Try to use for example XElement.