Web Service----Typed dataset?

[jmulei2000]

I created an XML webservice with VS.NET 2003. This service contains a functions that returns a typed dataset. I can consume this service using a .NET client. I wanted to know whether this datatype can also be accessed with other programming languages e.g. PHP, perl python etc

[mmetzger]

Assuming everything is the same the typed dataset should be serialized to xml. You can then parse this with anything else, the issue is that it won't be strongly typed by default.