How to return XmlDocument object in WCF

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I want to return XmlDocument object from WCF but it giving me error as

Type 'System.Xml.XmlDocument' cannot be serialized. Consider marking it with the DataContractAttribute attribute, and marking all of its members you want serialized with the DataMemberAttribute attribute.

How to return XMLDocument from WCF Contract.

Posted 23-Jul-14 2:34am

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Prakriti Goyal 23-Jul-14 8:49am

Try using XElement instead of XmlDocument
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/964870/wcf-return-an-xmldocument

CPallini 23-Jul-14 9:08am

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ZurdoDev · Answer 1 · 2014-07-23T08:43:00

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You'll have to use something else. You can always just return a string and the caller can load into an XDocument. You could even return you xDoc.ToString() so you're sure it is a valid XDocument.

I suppose you could get crazy and write all your own classes but that seems way overkill.

Posted 23-Jul-14 8:43am

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vishal_h 24-Jul-14 0:20am

Thanks for reply.Is there any data Size limitation when converting XML into STring.
And if any ways i want to return XML from WCF then what will be the solution.