Web Service Contract Design and Versioning for SOA

Chapter 6. Fundamental XML Schema: Types and Message Structure Basics

6.1 XML Schema Structure

6.2 Elements and Attributes

6.3 Types

6.4 Namespaces

6.5 Message Structures

When you sit down to design an XML message using XML Schema, you will have probably completed the service-oriented analysis process and you will be looking at a conceptual service candidate with one or more capability candidates, each representing a potential Web service operation. Based on your analysis results and whatever else you will have documented in this service’s profile, you will single out an operation and hopefully know enough about what you want its input and/or ...