empty namespaces

[Bob Morris <ra...@cs.umb.edu>]

This seems to be a perennial question, and yet I can't see an answer to 
it in the form I'm suffering with.

The dynamic wsdl generated by axis often (always?) has an empty default 
namespace in the root: <wsdl:definitions  ......  xmlns="" .... > This 
is true even of the axis default services such as the wsdl generated by 
the  axis Version service.

It has been reported to me that PHP applications using PEAR choke on 
this, and certainly do some WSDL validators, such as 
http://soapclient.com/soaptest.html.

So my questions are

1. Is there some deployment pattern that prevents this generation?

2. Is there advice to offer PHP/PEAR programmers (preferably with 
pointer to examples) to work around it?

3. In fact, the wsdl generated by axis seems to have every element fully 
qualified, so why is it necessary or approprate to generate an empty 
default namespace?

Thanks

Bob