Each XML Web Service needs a unique namespace in order for client applications to distinguish it from other services on the Web.  By default, ASP.Net Web Services use http://tempuri.org/ for this purpose.  While this suitable for XML Web Services under development, published services should use a unique, permanent namespace.

Your XML Web Service should be identified by a namespace that you control.  For example, you can use your company's Internet domain name as part of the namespace.  Although many namespaces look like URLs, they need not point to actual resources on the Web.

For XML Web Services creating using ASP.NET, the default namespace can be changed using the WebService attribute's Namespace property.  The WebService attribute is applied to the class that contains the XML Web Service methods.  Below is a code example that sets the namespace to "http://microsoft.com/webservices/":

C#

[WebService(Namespace="http://microsoft.com/webservices/")]
public class MyWebService {
    // implementation
}

Visual Basic.NET

<WebService(Namespace:="http://microsoft.com/webservices/")> Public Class MyWebService
    ' implementation
End Class

Visual J#.NET

/**@attribute WebService(Namespace="http://microsoft.com/webservices/")*/
public class MyWebService {
    // implementation
}

For more details on XML namespaces, see the W3C recommendation on Namespaces in XML.

For more details on WSDL, see the WSDL Specification.

For more details on URIs, see RFC 2396.

>>>>>>>>>>  I went ahead and posted the info in case the url disappears!

strange things have been known to happen online! te he!

Beth