Using a WebMethod, I get a value needed to create a HTML Table and populate it.
Once it’s done, I need the Table to be displayed.
Is it possible ?
Using a WebMethod, I get a value needed to create a HTML Table and
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Using a WebMethod, I get a value needed to create a HTML Table and populate it.
Once it’s done, I need the Table to be displayed.
Is it possible ?
Can a web service return an HTML table? Yes. Should you do it that way? Probably not. Please consider ‘separating the concerns’ so that the service is responsible only for returning the data. Then the consumer of the data can format it as needed. One possible implementation would be for the service to return XML and the ‘presenter’ to transform it with XSLT into the desired Table. In the long run, the code will be easier to maintain and understand. (Trust me; I’ve seen a project that had 2,500+ lines of string concatenation that built an HTML string. NOT fun!) As an added bonus, the web service’s response will be much smaller.