Rant Continued: Avoiding the DOM?http://blogs.msdn.com/mpowell/archive/2004/05/13/131377.aspxMore feedback from my earlier post... ChadBr came up with the best reason I have heard so far on when you might return XML encoded as a string instead of the actual XML from a Web service. What if you don't want the overhead of creating the DOM on theen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)re: Rant continued again: Don't put XML in Stringshttp://blogs.msdn.com/mpowell/archive/2004/05/13/131377.aspx#132341Sat, 15 May 2004 02:40:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:132341Matt PowellHow to return well-formed XML from WebServices without the DOM: from XmlReader and XPathNavigatorhttp://blogs.msdn.com/mpowell/archive/2004/05/13/131377.aspx#144950Mon, 31 May 2004 19:34:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:144950TrackBackre: Rant Continued: Avoiding the DOM?http://blogs.msdn.com/mpowell/archive/2004/05/13/131377.aspx#144954Mon, 31 May 2004 16:39:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:144954Daniel CazzulinoHere's a better approach, and you don't have to choose DOM vs (XmlReader | XPathNavigator): <a target="_new" href="http://weblogs.asp.net/cazzu/archive/2004/05/31/144922.aspx">http://weblogs.asp.net/cazzu/archive/2004/05/31/144922.aspx</a> (How to return well-formed XML from WebServices without the DOM: from XmlReader and XPathNavigator)