Some key things y'all might want to check out:
Matt Powell on Why your web services shouldn't return XML in string
variables:
http://blogs.msdn.com/mpowell/archiv...12/130637.aspx
(psst: secret: The Office Research Services SDK does exactly this. Don't
tell Matt! Also as noted in the comments, MS CRM does this)
Cazzu on How to return an XmlDocument from a webservice without
instantiating a DOM:
-Dino
Matt Powell on Why your web services shouldn't return XML in string
variables:
http://blogs.msdn.com/mpowell/archiv...12/130637.aspx
(psst: secret: The Office Research Services SDK does exactly this. Don't
tell Matt! Also as noted in the comments, MS CRM does this)
Cazzu on How to return an XmlDocument from a webservice without
instantiating a DOM:
-Dino