Converting an xml returned from share point list service to a data table is very easy .The code to do that is as follows
using System.Xml;
public DataTable ConvertToDataSet(XmlNode xmlListItems){
DataSet datasetList = new DataSet();
XmlTextReader xmlTxtReader = new XmlTextReader(xmlListItems.InnerXml, XmlNodeType.Element, null); datasetList.ReadXml(xmlTxtReader);
DataTable datatable = datasetList.Tables[1];
return datatable;}
Where listXml is the xml returned from the share point list service _vti_bin\lists.asmx
