• Chapter 1: Getting Started with Stylus Studio®
• Chapter 2: Editing and Querying XML
• Chapter 3: Converting Non-XML Files to XML
• Chapter 4: Working with XSLT
• Chapter 5: Creating XSLT Using the XSLT Mapper
• Chapter 6: Debugging Stylesheets
• Chapter 7: Defining XML Schemas
• Chapter 8: Defining Document Type Definitions
• Chapter 9: Writing XPath Expressions
• Chapter 10: Working with XQuery in Stylus Studio
• Chapter 11: Composing Web Service Calls
• Chapter 12: Working with WSDL Documents
  • Creating a WSDL Document in Stylus Studio
  • Opening WSDL Documents
  • Using the WSDL Editor
  • Working with WSDL Elements
    • Sample WSDL - A Stock Quote Service
    • The Definitions Element
      • Importing a WSDL Document
      • Definitions Element Properties
    • The Types Element
    • The Service Element
    • The Port Element
    • The Message Element
    • The Part Element
    • The PortType Element
    • The Operation Element
    • The Binding Element
    • The Input Element
    • The Output Element
    • The Fault Element
    • The Documentation Element
  • Importing WSDL Documents
  • Printing a WSDL Document
  • Saving the WSDL Diagram as an Image
• Chapter 13: Building XML Pipelines
• Chapter 14: Publishing XML Data
• Chapter 15: Integrating with Third-Party File Systems
• Chapter 16: Extending Stylus Studio
• Chapter 17: The Stylus Studio Java API
• Chapter 18: Stylus Studio GUI Reference

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The Definitions Element

The Definitions element ( wsdl:definitions) is the root element of a WSDL document. Stylus Studio creates the Definitions element for you when you create a new WSDL document. (See Creating a WSDL Document in Stylus Studio.) The Definitions element defines the set of services that the Web service offers.

You can use the Diagram > Add or the Definitions element's short-cut menu (right-click, select Add) to define the following elements as children of the Definitions element:

Importing a WSDL Document

You can import one WSDL document into another. You might want to do this, for example, if you have established a WSDL document as a repository for Messages you want to be able to across different Web services. Once you do this, you can use elements defined in the imported WSDL as you would locally defined elements.

See Importing WSDL Documents for more information.

Definitions Element Properties

The following table describes the properties of the Definitions element.