Ricky Ho wrote: > Besides the performance overhead of converting the XML to a byte array and > back, another big minus is the WSDL in this case has lost all the schema > definition. In other words, the client and the server has to use another > channel to communicate what does the detail of the request and response > look like.
That is why one parameter that the client sends is to tell the server how to return the data. For my purposes this works well, since the output can vary so much. For others it may not be as useful. I am also on a 100Mb network, and so bandwidth is not a concern. <g>
