Re: Passing an XML document to a web service

From: STom (stombiztalker_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/05/04 

Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 14:57:16 -0500

I believe in my case what I will have to do is convert the xml document to a
string.

The web service will be on an IBM box, either websphere or something like
that, no Microsoft libraries or anything like that.

Thanks.

STom
"Alex Feinman [MVP]" <public_news@alexfeinman.com> wrote in message
news:OvxDdLB7DHA.2676@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Web services (SOAP) will do serialization for you. There are no
> user-callable serialization methods (No LOS formatter, no binary
> serialization etc) but SOAP formatter exists inside
System.Web.Services.DLL
> although you cannot call it directly.
>
> You have two options to pass xml document between the client and the
server.
> One is using parameter (or return value) of type XML document. When you
> declare web method with return type of XmlDocument, .NET will return the
> SOAP response identical to XmlDocument contents - no extra headers at all.
I
> don't know how much is it compatible with generic SOAP, but you could give
> it a try. Write a web method on your platform that returns pure xml
> docuemnt, and on the CF side declare it as returning XmlDocument. This way
> you get the least overhead. If that fails, use string.
>
>
>
>
> "STom" <stombiztalker@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:eroo4U$6DHA.1716@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > My Pocket PC device will have a wireless connection to the internet and
> > there are some web services that I need to call to pass an XML document
> to.
> >
> > I will, within the Pocket PC app be reading the XML file and putting the
> > data into a dataset to use within the device with a SQL CE database.
When
> I
> > am ready to send to the web service I will just write the data to an xml
> > file and then send it.
> >
> > Now, I have heard that the CF does not support serialization but if I'm
> not
> > mistaken, web services requires data to be serialized.
> >
> > Does the web service automatically do the serialization which therefore
> > relieves the mobile device from having to worry about the serialization
> > issue?
> >
> > Also, is it best to pass the XML document as a string or as an XML
> document.
> > The web service will not be written in .Net.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > STom
> >
> >
>
>

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