A
XFormatter class functionality for formatting serialized objects.
The
SoapFormatter: serializes and deserializes an object, or an entire graph of connected objects, in SOAP format.
Apparently there isn't much of a description for the XMLFormatter. I would assume that the XMLFormatter serializes and deserializes XML objects and documents.
The
XMLSerializer class serializes and deserializes objects into and from XML documents. The XmlSerializer enables you to control how objects are encoded into XML.
Even though SOAP is XML based, it is probably best to use the SoapFormatter when dealing with SOAP instead of using the XMLFormatter.
-Frinny