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SOA Design Patterns


Web Service Contract Design & Versioning for SOA


SOA Principles of Service Design

Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology, and Design

Modern SOA Infrastructure: Technology, Design, and Governance
SOA with REST
Next Generation SOA: A Real-World Guide to Modern Service-Oriented Computing
SOA with .NET & Azure
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SOA Security: Practices, Patterns, and Technologies for Securing Services
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default namespace

(contributed by Andre Tost and Priscilla Walmsley)

An XML element can include a declaration of a "default namespace". This means that for this element and all of its child elements, no prefix is required for the default namespace. In other words, each element that has no namespace prefix is part of the default namespace.

Note that this is different from not being part of a namespace at all. If a default namespace is declared, elements that are not part of any namespace must be explicitly prefixed.

The following example highlights the default namespace:



See also:

- expanded name

- local name

- namespace

- namespace prefix

- qualified name (QName)

- target namespace

- XML vocabulary

The Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl
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