What is the difference between WSDL and XSD

WSDL:Web Services Description Language

WSDL is an XML format for describing network services as a set of endpoints operating on messages containing either document-oriented or procedure-oriented information. The operations and messages are described abstractly, and then bound to a concrete network protocol and message format to define an endpoint. Related concrete endpoints are combined into abstract endpoints (services). WSDL is extensible to allow description of endpoints and their messages regardless of what message formats or network protocols are used to communicate, however, the only bindings described in this document describe how to use WSDL in conjunction with SOAP 1.1, HTTP GET/POST, and MIME.

WSDL 指网络服务描述语言 (Web Services Description Language)。

WSDL 是一种使用 XML 编写的文档。这种文档可描述某个 Web service。它可规定服务的位置，以及此服务提供的操作（或方法）。

XSD:XML Schema Definition

This document specifies the XML Schema Definition Language, which offers facilities for describing the structure and constraining the contents of XML documents, including those which exploit the XML Namespace facility. The schema language, which is itself represented in an XML vocabulary and uses namespaces, substantially reconstructs and considerably extends the capabilities found in XML document type definitions (DTDs).

XML Schema 语言也称作 XML Schema 定义（XML Schema Definition，XSD）。

XML Schema 是基于 XML 的 DTD 替代者,描述 XML 文档的结构。