OASIS eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) TC

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Attribute selector node selection

  • 1.  Attribute selector node selection

    Posted 11-16-2009 12:12
    All,
    
    I am implementing the changes we have decided on the public review 
    issues so far.
    
    When implementing issue #2, I noticed that the text for an attribute 
    selector says (after I have added "element node" as decided on issue 
    #2), in section 5.31, line 2392:
    
    "Each node selected by the specified XPath expression MUST be a text 
    node, an attribute node, an element node, a processing instruction node 
    or a comment node."
    
    It appears strange to me that XML processing instructions or comments 
    may be significant for an XACML policy, and I propose that we remove 
    those and change the text to:
    
    "Each node selected by the specified XPath expression MUST be a text 
    node, an attribute node or an element node."
    
    Also, since we now include "element node", meaning we don't select 
    simple text anymore, we should change the directly following sentence:
    
    currently: "The string representation of the value of each node MUST be 
    converted to an attribute value of the specified data-type, ..."
    
    change to: "The content of each node MUST be converted to an attribute 
    value of the specified data-type, ..."
    
    Best regards,
    Erik