Need regexp-uri-match function

[Anne Anderson <Anne.Anderson@Sun.COM>]

If we are going to use our existing "regexp-string-match"
function to compare URIs, that means the DataType of the
Attribute whose value is a URI must be "#string".

This means you can't mix constraints that use the existing
"#anyURI-equal" function with constraints that use the
"regexp-string-match" matching on the same "URI" AttributeValue.
I think this means we do away with the "#anyURI" DataType, and
would have to express all URIs as "#string".  Otherwise, the
Request may ask for a resource using "#anyURI", while the policy
constrains the resource using "regexp-string-match", or vice
versa.

It also means you can't have two values for the same Attribute,
one that is a URI and the other that is a string, and be able to
distinguish them by DataType. 

I think all these are bad.

I suggest we create a new function called
"urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:2.0:function:regexp-uri-match" that
takes two arguments.  The first argument SHALL be DataType
"#string" and SHALL contain a regular expression.  The second
argument SHALL be DataType "#anyURI" and SHALL specify a URI
value to be matched.

The implementation of the function can be the same as the
implementation of "regexp-string-match", just that the second
argument value is treated as a string even though its DataType is
"#anyURI".

Anne
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