[mdx] syntax for entity-attributes

[Cantor, Scott E.]

On 5/23/11 3:03 AM, "Leif Johansson" <leifj at mnt.se> wrote:
>I propose the following: allow a tag to be formatted according
>to one of
>
>(1) '{' name-format '}' name '=' value
>(2) name '=' value
>(3) value
>
>In case (2) name-format is assumed to be
>
>urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:attrname-format:unspecified.

I would suggest that the default be the actual expected default in use,
the URI format.

>and in case (3) - which is the original 'tag' case we just have
>to define a common attribute for social 'tags' on metadata. This
>is something that needs doing anyway. Since we would be using the
>unspecified name format we could simply define the attribute name
>'tag' as the attribute name used for tags.

The unspecified format should never be used under any circumstances. It
shouldn't even have been in the specification to begin with.

-- Scott