How to process a web service answer?

Suppose a web service returns a string:

<book>

<title>Hamlet</title>

</book>

How to get the title string ("Hamlet") from web service answer. I think that C# should proces xml web service answer by itself. Why C# does not generate any class like

class Answer{

string title;

string body;

public string getTitle();

public string getBody();

}

Do i really have to process xml data returned by web service by myself?

Thanx :-)

Re: How to process a web service answer?

It depends. What is the return type from the webservice? If its a Answer object (or any specific business object), than no you dont. If its an XMLDocument, then yes, you need to parse it yourself.

Nick

Re: How to process a web service answer?

Is it returning a single string that contains "<book><title>Hamlet</title><body>To be or not to be</body></book>" in which case you need to use XSLT to get the value, other make the return type liek the following:

using System;

public class Answer
{
private string msBody = String.Empty;
private string msTitle = String.Empty;

/// <summary>
/// Body of book
/// </summary>
public string Body
{
    get { return msBody;   }
    set { msBody = value; }
}
/// <summary>
/// Title of book
/// </summary>
public string Title
{
    get { return msTitle; }
    set { msTitle = value; }
}
}

Re: How to process a web service answer?

Hi Tatworth,

It returns a single string so i see i have to use XSLT.

Thanx :-)