A system transfers interface documents for a web service, such as WSDL or WADL documents. The documents include a service document and one or more reference definition documents. The system parses the service document to extract the location of the reference definition documents. The system moves the service document to a temporary storage location, and moves the reference definition documents to the temporary storage location. The system then, for each document that references one of the reference definition documents, modifies its location value to the temporary storage location.