How to convert Raw XML to SOAP XML in C#?

Question

I have some xml generated from the XML Serializer ..How can I convert it to SOAP XML ?...I am trying to do it ASP.NET C#...please help me out

Answer 1

You will just need to create a data class that can be serialized by both the XMLSerializer and the SOAPFormatter. This likely means you will need a public class with public properties for the XMLSerializer and you will need to add the Serializable attribute for the SOAPFormatter. Otherwise, it is pretty straight forward.

I created a Naive example to illustrate what I mean:

[Serializable]
public class MyData 
{
    public int MyNumber { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
}

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        using (MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream())
        {
            MyData data = new MyData() { MyNumber = 11, Name = "StackOverflow" };

            XmlSerializer serializerXML = new XmlSerializer(data.GetType());
            serializerXML.Serialize(stream, data);

            stream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);

            data = (MyData)serializerXML.Deserialize(stream);

            // We're cheating here, because I assume the SOAP data
            // will be larger than the previous stream. 
            stream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);

            SoapFormatter serializerSoap = new SoapFormatter();
            serializerSoap.Serialize(stream, data);

            stream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);

            data = (MyData)serializerSoap.Deserialize(stream);
        }
    }
}

Answer 2

There's no such thing as "raw XML" and "SOAP XML".

What are you trying to accomplish? If you're just trying to return XML as a response from a web service, then just get it into an XmlDocument or XDocument, and just return the root element:

[WebMethod]
public XmlElement ReturnXml()
{
    XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
    doc.Load(fromSomewhere);
    return doc.DocumentElement;
}