.net webservice with XElement return type

There is a way to make a webservice that returns a parameter of the type XElement? Now I'm working with XmlNode 开发者_JAVA百科return type, but I want to get rid of using this old xml library.

I'm using this:

XDocument doc = new XDocument();
XElement xml = new XElement("produtos");
doc.Add(xml);

//...
var xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
using (var xmlReader = doc.CreateReader())
{
    xmlDoc.Load(xmlReader);
}
return xmlDoc;

I can't figure out why the webservice dont work with the XmlLinq lib

You should be able to do this:

[ScriptMethod(ResponseFormat = ResponseFormat.Xml)]
public XElement GetSomething()
{
    return new XElement("Something");
}

I used an extension method to convert the XElement to an XmlElement (per suggestion of @Ocelot20):

<System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Extension()> _
Public Function ToXmlElement(value As XElement) As XmlElement
    Dim xmlDoc = New XmlDocument()
    xmlDoc.LoadXml(value.ToString())
    Return xmlDoc.DocumentElement
End Function

Seems to work fine!