Rails - Nov 2006 - Web services when data is not necessarily forked back

Sorry, trying to figure this out.  A web services client sends a request for
data.  However  instead of Rails (web services server) sending back
xml for the client to render, the web services server actually renders the
data, would that still be a web service ? Hope this isn''t a confusing
question.
My objective is to have Rails acting as the web services server but to
deliver the data on request.

TIA
Stuart
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I''m not sure what you''re trying to do. You want to make a
request to
the web server and then have it return a web page?  You certainly don''t
need web services for that...

A web service doesn''t have to return data, and it would be possible to
have it return a string of html if you wanted.


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