W3 ORG 2001 XMLSchema is Not Declared

Hello:

  I am not sure if this post belongs in BizTalk forum but perhaps some of you have come across this ptoblem before when trying to add web references to your BizTalk project.

 I have an existing web service project ( let’s call it ‘WSProject’ ) which houses approx. 5 web services and which are all web referenced in my BizTalk Schemas project ( let’s call it ‘BTSchemasProj’ ) and they are working fine. However, recently I added a new web service to WSProject and built it with success. The problem is that when I add that service as a web reference in my BTSchemasProj I get the following error:

 Error    10    The ‘http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema:schema’ element is not declared.    Reference.xsd

 I have not been able to figure out why this is happening although i do see one difference in the service’s wsdl file that I do not see in the others:

 The wsdl starts out with the very same wsdl:definitions as the others

<wsdl:definitions xmlns:soap=”http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/&#8221; xmlns:tm=”http://microsoft.com/wsdl/mime/textMatching/&#8221; xmlns:soapenc=”http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/&#8221; xmlns:mime=”http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/mime/&#8221; xmlns:tns=”http://schemas.mysite.com/2008/01/22/Service&#8221; xmlns:s=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema&#8221; xmlns:soap12=”http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap12/&#8221; xmlns:http=”http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/&#8221; targetNamespace=”http://schemas.mysite.com/2008/01/22/Service&#8221; xmlns:wsdl=”http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/”>&nbsp;

 …but when  I look at the schems under wsdl:types I see an imports statement that I do not see in the other wsdl files:

<wsdl:types>
    <s:schema elementFormDefault=”qualified” targetNamespace=”http://schemas.mysite.com/2008/01/22/Service”&gt;
      <s:import namespace=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema&#8221; />
      <s:element name=”RetreiveEFTFileInfo”>

I have tried commenting out the import tag in bold with no success.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I am assuming the issue is on the web service side.

Thanks