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ASP.NET MVC - Returning data as HTML or XML

Answer 1

A:

What about just returning two different views?

public ActionResult Details(int id, string format) {
  if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(format) && format == "xml") {
    return View("MyView_Xml");
  }
  else {
    return View("MyView_Html");
  }
}

Then create two views. MyView_Xml:

<%@ Page Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<Customer>" ContentType="text/xml">
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<customer>
  <first_name><%= Model.FirstName %></first_name>
  <last_name><%= Model.FirstName %></last_name>
</customer>

and MyView_Html

<%@ Page Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<Customer>">
<html>
  <body>
    <div><label>First Name:</label><%= Mode.FirstName %></div>
    <div><label>Last Name:</label><%= Mode.LastName %></div>
  </body>
</html>

David G 2009-08-14 16:13:05

I see where this would help me serialize out to XML, but what if I wanted to except XML for the Create() method? Seems like I'm handwriting more code here.

tyndall 2009-08-14 16:49:48

Use [AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)] public ActionResult Create(XDocument xml) { } to accept an XML post

David G 2009-08-14 18:20:04

Answer 2

+1 A:

This post shows a nice way of achieving what you are looking for.

Darin Dimitrov 2009-08-14 16:20:05

Trying this method now. Thanks. Will post back in a little while.

tyndall 2009-08-14 16:57:22

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