RE: [saml-dev] SAML advice usage.

["Scott Cantor" <cantor.2@osu.edu>]

> can anyone please help me understanding what an advice is for ? 

In practice, I've only seen it used as a way of carrying ancillary data
associated with profiles that use SAML. In a few cases, it gets used for the
original purpose, which was to supply non-normative context for interpreting
the assertion.

One could even imagine doing weird things like embedding schema definitions
of attributes, for example.

> I'm trying to get information from the spec but I can get 
> some tangible examples. 

The SAML core spec is very general. Examples like that can only emerge from
profiles, and none of the standard profiles use it.

-- Scott