Why does tempuri.org exist? Why does each XML Webservice require its own namespace, unique from any other on the web?
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Plug http://tempuri.org/ into your browser, you get a fairly good explanation there.
Updated sadly the tempuri.org URL no longer works but the domain is still registered with Microsoft, maybe one day it'll come back.
It's also worth reading section 'A 1.3 Generating URIs' at:
Kev
2008-10-08 00:57:46
The URL works for me.
John Saunders
2010-09-14 17:28:43
@John - how odd...works from our data centre in the UK but not from my Irish ISP or Irish 3G provider.
Kev
2010-09-14 18:01:39
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempuri
tempuri.org is the default namespace URI used by Microsoft development products, like Visual Studio.
Cody Brocious
2008-10-08 00:58:49
Given the size of the article, you might as well have quoted the entire thing.
Chris Charabaruk
2008-10-08 01:09:34
tempuri.org isn't particular to Microsoft, it's actually described in the W3C notes on WDSL: http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl#_Toc492291092 - "The base URI "http://tempuri.org/" can be used to construct a URI without any unique association to an entity"
Kev
2008-10-08 01:13:41
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Probably to guarantee that public webservices will be unique.
It always makes me think of delicious deep fried treats...
Andrew Kennan
2008-10-08 00:59:21
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Webservices require unique namespaces so they don't confuse each others schemas and whatever with each other. A URI (domain, subdomain, subsubdomain, etc) is a clever identifier as it's "guaranteed" to be unique, and in most circumstances you've already got one.
Oddmund
2008-10-08 01:05:26
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Note that namespaces that are in the format of a valid Web URL don't necessarily need to be dereferenced i.e. you don't need to serve actual content at that URL. All that matters is that the namespace is globally unique.
Ates Goral
2008-10-08 01:26:18