Web Service Contract Design and Versioning for SOA

Chapter 5. A Plain English Guide to Namespaces

5.1 Elements, Attributes, and Namespaces

5.2 Namespace Terminology

5.3 What’s in a Name(space)?

5.4 Namespace Syntax

5.5 Namespaces and Web Service Contracts

Before we begin describing the individual Web service contract technologies introduced in Chapter 4, we first need to establish namespaces, a part of both XML and Web service technology platforms that is so fundamental that their understanding is critical to designing, using, and governing Web service contracts.

Namespaces have traditionally been one of the most neglected design-time considerations, primarily because they have simply not been ...