How can I pass an XML document back thorugh web service?

jwilder

We have a website that will call a NAV Codeunit to return a customer record. We want to return this Customer record in an xml format? How can I do this?

I don't think an xmlport is the answer because an xmlport only returns access to the fields in the xmlport, it doesn't return the actual xml that I can see. Or is there a way to expose the xmlport as xml instead?

ara3n

what version of NAV?

jwilder

NAV 2009 using the External Connector. You posted on another question of mine that I can use xml dom. I am guessing I can use xmldom document as var parameter in Navision codeunit? This way I could pass in an xml document and pass it back.

ara3n

You use xmldom to consume a webservice, not to offer a webservice. You can't use xmldom as a function parameter in you webservice. You need to use xmlport.
If your goal is to see how the xml looks like. well run the xmlport and export it to text.

jwilder

My goal is to pass actual xml to website. It is easier for our website to work with actual xml.

Miklos_Hollender

XMLport as a ByRef (changeable) parameter.

This compiles as a custom class in C# (or something like that) but you could just write a C# method in your website that serializes those back to XML.

Or, use XMLDOM (MSXML6.0) to make an XML and put into a ByRef BigText, but the above is better IMHO.