Re: [xacml-comment] Definition of string-equal

[Oleg Gryb <oleg_gryb@yahoo.com>]

I would be strongly opposed to "implemntation-defined" due policy interop issues. Can we utilize 'ecncoding' attribute somehow that is coming in XML request instead?

E.g. if encoding="utf-8" in request then all strings should be interpreted and compared as UTF-8 encoded strings.

--- On Wed, 8/6/08, Roland Illig <roland.illig@gmx.de> wrote:

> From: Roland Illig <roland.illig@gmx.de>
> Subject: [xacml-comment] Definition of string-equal
> To: xacml-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
> Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2008, 5:55 PM
> Hi,
> 
> why do the XACML documents specify that the string-equal
> function 
> compares strings byte-by-byte? In XMLSchema, strings are
> defined as 
> sequences of _characters_, not of bytes. Which encoding
> shall be used 
> for converting strings to bytes, or is this
> implementation-defined?
> 
> Roland
> 
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