complex datatypes in webservices.

[Ashish]

I am writing a web service that takes a xml document as an argument and
returns an xml document.

the schema for the input and output documents is very well defined..

Is it possible to use xml documents as datatype as an argument , and be
able to specify a schema for that xml document ?

any help or pointers would be appreciated...


regards

 

[Joshua Flanagan]

Yes, that is exactly how all web services work. The request and response
are defined using XML schema. Unfortunately, the VS.NET designers hide
this fact, and most people forget/never learn about it.

Here are two good articles on the subject:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/12/WebServicesDesign/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnservice/html/service08202002.asp


Joshua Flanagan
http://flimflan.com/blog