XPath Attribute Profile: XPath URI as a URN

["Cameron Morris" <cmorris@novell.com>]

Sorry for the sudden blast of emails.  I had a thought of how to solve the URI/URN problem.

 

(That problem is that  XPath is a URI, which means it could be a URN but no one has registered a urn for it)

I originally proposed a name attribute using xpath and service type attribute using the namespace urn for the document it uses.  Lets combine them: AttributeName for XPath = { urn of the document namespace } :xpath: { XPath URI into the document }

 

Example:

<saml:attribute name="urn:liberty:id-sis-pp:2003_08:xpath:/pp:PP/pp:LegalIdentity/pp:LegalName” />

 

 

- Cameron

Cameron Morris
Novell, Inc., the leading provider of Linux and identity solutions
http://www.novell.com