How to return XML in ASP.NET?

Question

I have encountered many half-solutions to the task of returning XML in ASP.NET. I don\'t want to blindly copy & paste some code that happens to work most of the time, th

Answer 1

Below is the server side code that would call the handler and recieve the stream data and loads into xml doc

 Stream stream = null;
       **Create a web request with the specified URL**
        WebRequest myWebRequest = WebRequest.Create(@"http://localhost/XMLProvider/XMLProcessorHandler.ashx");
        **Senda a web request and wait for response.**
        WebResponse webResponse = myWebRequest.GetResponse();
        **Get the stream object from response object**
        stream = webResponse.GetResponseStream();

       XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
      **Load stream data into xml**
       xmlDoc.Load(stream);