OASIS eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) TC

Re: [xacml] Multi-valued attributes in Request. Forwarded from SethProctor.

  • 1.  Re: [xacml] Multi-valued attributes in Request. Forwarded from SethProctor.

    Posted 10-22-2002 14:52
    i agree. b Polar Humenn wrote: > We have multiple <AttributeValue> in attributes? > You mean in the Request Context? > > That really shouldn't be. > > Being that the request context is a "notational" structure, there really > insn't any need for "economy", such as it is with XML, on these things. > Also, since the <Attribute> has the DataType attribute, and has the > <AttributeValue> element which must conform to the DataType, I really see > no reason to have such things. Why complicate matters? > > The request context is "notational" and using the language of XML schema > should just say that each attribute shall have an attribute id, a > datatype, and a value for that datatype, and may have and issuer and issue > instant. > > I suggest we clear this up by changing the schema to make the attribute > value occurance to minOccurs=1 maxOccurs=1. > > Cheers, > -Polar