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I'm going through a rather fun process of integrating with a Java app that uses POX style interaction to save information to a remote server and ran across the problem of writing a general clob of XML data to the Message. I ran across a number of demos that all relied on having a number of custom BodyWriters, essentially one per message you'd be writing and came up with this instead. Apologize for the nasty formatting in advance.

public class XmlBodyWriter : BodyWriter
{

    private string _xmlData;

    public XmlBodyWriter( string xmlData ) : base( false
   {
       _xmlData = xmlData;
   }

     protected override void OnWriteBodyContents(System.Xml.XmlDictionaryWriter writer){
                
                  using (MemoryStream buffer = new MemoryStream(_xmlData.Length))
                 {
                        using (StreamWriter streamWriter = new StreamWriter(buffer))
                        {
                                   streamWriter.Write(_xmlData);
                                   streamWriter.Flush();
                                   buffer.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
                                   XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(buffer);
                                   writer.WriteNode(reader, true);
                                   writer.Flush();
                          }
                  }
    }
}