"Gatecrasher" wrote:

> I have 100's of entity classes and datasets which are populated on a web
> server and returned through IIS web services.
>
> With database fields that contain nothing but spaces I have a problem. When
> I look at the entity classes or the dataset tables on the server that have
> fields with values like " " and " " etc.
>
> When I look at them on the server that are all empty.
>
> I understand about whitespace and xmlDocuments etc but how do I set
> preserveWhitespace on DataSet DataTables and my own entity classes?
>
> Are there properties I can set against my entity fields [xmlattribute] or
> something?
>
> How do you influence the XML generation of classes and datasets when
> returned through web services?
>
> thanks