Yesterday I attended a tutorial titled "XML Data Management" by Peter Lacey. Mr. Lacey did a great job filling in the gaps of my knowledge as it relates to XML Schema (xsd) and XQuery. The course focused on XML data as opposed to XML text. Although XML text has more relation to my uses, the course definitely improved my understanding and future implementations.
Even though it may be considered a side-issue related to the tutorial, I learned that my use of Visual Studio and web service creation was not only wrong, but dreadfully wrong. My implementations worked, but lacked foresight and planning.
I started with a logical data model to outline and map my data. My next step should have been to work on a taxonomy and namespace generation. Follow that up with xsd creation and WSDL definitions then I would finally be ready to write my webservices. Instead, I jumped directly from my Logical Data Structure (LDS model) to my web service creation.
In short, my shortcomings were due to ignorance about the tools I am using. It will be an interesting adjustment and some require some additional education, but I'm up for the challenge.
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