Hi, Keenan. Thanks for the response.

The problem is on the consumer of the web service. They want the XML
document.

I don't want to write another WebMethod just for this. I'd like to know how
to serialize the returned data to an XML doc. The following code will do it
and save it to disk, but ultimately I want not to write it to disk, but
rather store it in a "string" variable:

                            System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer s = new
System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer(typeof(seResults),https://www.somedomain.com/RatingHub);

                            Stream fs = new FileStream("D:\\stream.txt",
FileMode.Truncate );

                            XmlWriter writer = new XmlTextWriter(fs, new
UTF8Encoding());

                            s.Serialize(writer, results);

 Any thoughts?

Thanks again,

Mike

Hello, Sami. Thanks for the response.

I figured out a way to do it that looks like the following. Can you think of
why this is not a good way to do it? A call to the web service has been made
and the returned "seResutls" object assigned to variable "results":

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System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer s = new
System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer(typeof(seResults));
MemoryStream mm = new MemoryStream();

// Now serialize it:
s.Serialize(mm, results);

// Now convert it to a string:
ASCIIEncoding encoding = new ASCIIEncoding( );
string str = encoding.GetString(mm.GetBuffer());
str = str.Trim();
MessageBox.Show(str);
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Thanks again,

Mike