>I think too many .NET developers are simply not returning good stuff from their WebServices. If a .NET WebService returns a DataSet, that can easily be consumed by a .NET application as is. However, *only* a .NET application will *ever* be able to easily consume that WebService. Anyone else trying to consume that WebService will necessarily have to jump thru the XMLDOM parsing hoops in order to utilize what was returned from that WebService. IMHO, all WebServices should return XML, none of this returning DataSets horsesh*t! Especially since it's so easy to do, simply by returning MyDataSet.GetXML(). What's so hard about that? That's my pet peeve for the decade. <g>

Agreed. Especially that all we hear during these days is XML Web Service so they probably didn't catch that one. :)