[mdx] syntax for entity-attributes

Leif Johansson leifj at sunet.se
Mon May 23 08:16:33 PDT 2011


Fair enough

23 maj 2011 kl. 17:04 skrev "Cantor, Scott E." <cantor.2 at osu.edu>:

> 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
> 
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