There was something mysterious. I imported the file into Eclipse too. It kept telling me there was an error on line one, but no information as to what the error was. Vi didn't show any unprintables. I finally created a new wsdl file in Eclipse, cut and pasted the same lines from the old page, and the line 1 error disappeared. At that point I put the trailing slash in that you mentioned and I was able to generate methods with stubmaker.pl. The remaining errors don't seem to cause any harm I'm not sure how much to trust Eclipse's error messages when working with the intricacies. The actual page, sans soap:header, is at http://www.cyberdefender.com/dynatoolbar/DynaToolBar.wsdl . Thanks for you help.