Using Web Services and XML
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I have a service that continually retrieves data from a Web Service and pushes it to our client software. This is extremely easy in VB.NET. However, as our program grows I've encountered 2 problems I'm not entirely sure how to solve: 1) We're beginning to add more data "feeds" (other web services). Some of these provide the same data as others. Some changes are due to cheaper prices, geographic considerations, etc. At any rate, my first problem is how do I create the Web Service Reference dynamically? In other words, I'd prefer to use a configuration XML file to tell my service which web service to use for data and then have my service retrieve the data but I don't see a way to do this dynamically. 2) Let's say I use two different Web Services for something like current weather conditions and each service has it's own format for the retrieved data. I'd like to be able to "massage" this data into the format our application requires (in XML) without having to write parser logic each time we need to support a new format. Is this a good fit for XSLT? If so, could someone point me in the right direction? Thanks!