Format XML output from .NET Service

I am new to creating .NET Services. I have created a service that does a database query and produces an XML file in OPML format. The service is being called call from a DHTML web page using XMLHttp. Everything is working great except for the service is html encoding my "<" and ">" characters to "<" and ">". For my XML output I need these characters to remain what they are. How do I tell the service not to perform the html encoding? I was wondering if this was in the Globalization setting in web.config? responseEncoding is currently set to utf-8.

I am using Visual Studio 2003 with .Net 1.1.

OPML example

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 <opml version="1.0">

<head>

</head>

<body>

  <outline text="fruit">

    <outline text="orange"/>

    <outline text="apple">

      <outline text="red delicious"/>

      <outline text="braeburn"/>

    </outline>

  </outline>

</body>

</opml>

I need my XML output to look like the above example. All my "<" and ">" symbols are getting html encoded.

Web service:

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 [WebMethod]

public string EntityTable()

{

    try

    {

        StringBuilder xmlString = new StringBuilder();

        //Add a bunch of XML text to string here

        return xmlString.ToString();

    }

    catch (Exception ex)

    {

        return ex.ToString();

    }

}

.NET is also adding this before and after the OPML:

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 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> 

  <string xmlns="http://localhost/webservices/">

  </string>

I need the <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> bit but I dont need the <string> tags. Is this a key to my problem?

Any help appreciated. Thanks

Sep 6 '06 #1

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