Just a quick question.
Does this mean that an XmlTextWriter cannot be used in a webservice?
Is there some special coding required to use this class?

jdhavo@yahoo.com wrote:
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> Does this mean that an XmlTextWriter cannot be used in a webservice?[/color]

What kind of "use" are you talking about? It is certainly possible to
create an instance of XmlTextWriter in a web service method/class and
use it to write some XML.
Using XmlTextWriter as the type of a parameter or result of a web
service is a different issue. I am currently not sure why you would want
to do that.



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I'm trying to return an image from a webservice in an XML document.
Using a string to contain the XML document doesn't work. It allows the
document to be saved to disk but if you attempt to open it directly
from the download dialog, it abends with an invalid header.

I thought If I returned an XmlTextWriter, that might work. But I see
that it cannot be returned from a web service. It would have to be
converted to something else. I don't believe a stringwriter would be
any better than a string.

Thank you for the response.

As a matter of fact, I receive the serialization error whenever I
instantiate the XmlTextWriter. Whether or not I am returning it from a
method call. It cannot be instantiated period.

Thank you again,

Never mind on this post.
I'm still not sure how to get an image to download using XML. I could
create a structure and download the metadata on the image in XML and a
binary file for the actual image. I would prefer to do it all in xml
however.