Hi John,

I am not sure what your saying here, but the values do get returned in XML
format, the problem is they get de-serialized back into their original
values.  So for instance if you have a web method that returns a integer, the
web service will serialized it to XML send it accross and when it reaches the
consuming code gets de-serialized back into an integer.

If you want a representation as XML, then i guess you could change the
return type to a string and create the XML using the XMLTextWriter class of
the framework.

Hope that helps,

Rob