XML Element must have CDATA tages around it.

[Mike]

I am consuming a web service hosted by one of our clients. One of the
string properties of the object I am creating to pass to their web service
is called CustomerName. The XML they re receiving I just a standatd xml
elemnt:

<CustomerName>Joe Friday</CustomerName>

The client has told me that the customer name, Joe Firday, needs to have
CDATA tags around it:

<CustomerName>![CDATA[Joe Friday]]</CustomerName>

How can I get VS.NET 2003 to serialize the customer name in this way?

Thanks in advance.

Mike R

[Mike]

Thanks for all your help Dan.

The problem I have here is really the client. They cannot make any changes
to their web service because of their development cycle will push the
project back 3 months. I'm having to back my code into a poorly designed
and poorly written web service. Their web service was written by hand and is
not compliant. It's too hard to explain everything going on on their side.
That is why I am having so many problems. This is another example.

The program that is running on their side will crash is it doesn't see CDATA
tags around the customer name. So in the SOAP message I send them I need
the CDATA tags around customer name.

Thanks,

Mike

"Dan Rogers" <da***@microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Why would they want to do this? I'd question that practice since there
really is no reason to expect the XML passed to pass non-safe XML.
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I am consuming a web service hosted by one of our clients. One of the
string properties of the object I am creating to pass to their web service
is called CustomerName. The XML they re receiving I just a standatd xml
elemnt:

<CustomerName>Joe Friday</CustomerName>

The client has told me that the customer name, Joe Firday, needs to have
CDATA tags around it:

<CustomerName>![CDATA[Joe Friday]]</CustomerName>

How can I get VS.NET 2003 to serialize the customer name in this way?

Thanks in advance.

Mike R