RE: [security-services] XPath Attribute Profile

[Cameron Morris <cmorris@novell.com>]

On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 20:14 -0400, Scott Cantor wrote:
> > So in addition to the XPath attribute profile - used only for queries -
> > you'd like something like an "XML document attribute profile" to define
> > the attribute name as a document or document namespace - used for
> > attribute statements in assertions.
> 
> Maybe I'm confused, but in the parlance of the profiles that exist now, an
> attribute profile such as this would be expected to address both attribute
> naming and value syntax in assertions as well as any rules that might apply
> to queries. I certainly read this profile in that way, not as something that
> only regulated queries.

Yes, you are right.  That is exactly what I intended the profile for.
In this particular thread I was trying to understand what Conor proposed
as an alternative. 

- Cameron