this is msdos screen output: Unhandled Exception: System.InvalidOperationException: There is an error in XML document (2, 2). ---> System.InvalidOperationException: w as not expected. at Microsoft.Xml.Serialization.GeneratedAssembly.XmlSerializationReadersubmit Quote.Read22_submitQuote() --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer.Deserialize(XmlReader xmlReader, St ring encodingStyle, XmlDeserializationEvents events) at System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer.Deserialize(XmlReader xmlReader, St ring encodingStyle) at System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer.Deserialize(XmlReader xmlReader) at ConsoleApplication8.Program.Main(String[] args) in C:\Documents and Settin gs\imcdermid.IMCCA.000\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\ConsoleApplicati on8\ConsoleApplication8\Program.cs:line 21 this is what comes from validation tool: Validating test.xml... file:///c:/test.xml:2,181: Schema in aami\19.02.08.NEW.v3.00\Quote3.wsdl has a different target namespace from the one specified in the instance document . file:///c:/aami/19.02.08.NEW.v3.00/Quote3.wsdl:2,442: The root element name of an XML Schema should be 'schema'. file:///c:/aami/19.02.08.NEW.v3.00/Quote3.wsdl:2,442: The namespace of element 'definitions' must be from the schema namespace. file:///c:/aami/19.02.08.NEW.v3.00/Quote3.wsdl:2,442: Attribute 'name' cannot appear in global definitions declarations file:///c:/aami/19.02.08.NEW.v3.00/Quote3.wsdl:3,17: Error in content of element information item file:///c:/aami/19.02.08.NEW.v3.00/Quote3.wsdl:739,42: Error in content