First time creating a web service ... help!

[fastcougar1]

I work for a logistics company and I have been tasked with creating a web service that will allow clients to feed in XML packets and our server would then take the XML, confirm it's valid and then process a quote and then return this quote back to the client as an XML packet. Here is where my confusion arrises ... what type of returntype is an XML packet? a "string"?

[Newsgroup_User]

Basically yes, A long structured string. The cffunction tag also
accepts a returnType of XML, I'm not sure which is best.

fastcougar1 wrote:
> I work for a logistics company and I have been tasked with creating a web
> service that will allow clients to feed in XML packets and our server would
> then take the XML, confirm it's valid and then process a quote and then return
> this quote back to the client as an XML packet. Here is where my confusion
> arrises ... why type of returntype is an XML packet? a "string"?
>
>

[Dan_Bracuk]

The one time I tried this, I think I used returntype = "any"