Understanding XML namespaces is essential to understanding and building Web services. Unfortunately, most developers do not understand how XML namespaces work and get confused when they see all the colons and URLs. The funny thing is, namespaces are so simple that once you understand them you wonder why you had trouble understanding them in the first place. I wrote this article to help you get over the initial hump of understanding XML namespaces, and to show you how they are used in XML documen...
Back in college, on the night before a final exam, every subject humanity has ever considered became utterly fascinating to me. Every subject that is, except the subject about which I was to be tested on the next morning. My wife says she would end up cleaning the night before an exam. And me? I would end up in the library reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica, leafing through it page by page. I felt good about ignoring my exam the next day if I ended up studying a subject that I was to study the...
