Sergey Chernov [http://community.jboss.org/people/chernser] created the discussion "Envelope XML structure with multiply NS definitions of same namespace" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/542178#542178 -------------------------------------------------------------- Good day, All! I've noticed, that WS defines namespace for each tag or attribute, when namespace is out of service namespace. Like this: <env:Envelope xmlns:env=" http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/ http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">     <env:Header/>     <env:Body>        <ns2:getNilElementResponse xmlns:ns2=" http://service.domain.com/ http://service.domain.com/">           <return>              <values>                 <records>test</records>                 <records xsi:nil="true" xmlns:xsi=" http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"/>                 <records>test1</records>                 <records xsi:nil="true" xmlns:xsi=" http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"/>              </values>           </return>        </ns2:getNilElementResponse>     </env:Body> </env:Envelope> As you can see attribute `nil` is from XMLSchema-instance namespace. The namespace prefix definition apears each time `nil` is used. In case of small response (like this) it is not big problem, but when huge amount of data returned - it causes extra overhead. Is there any way to define such namespaces in parent node (body)? I have created feature request ** *https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBWS-3021 JBWS-3021* -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/542178#542178] Start a new discussion in JBoss Web Services Development at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]