Re: [xacml] [Text Change] Clarify A.3 Structured types does not castor convert values

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

On 1 November, Polar Humenn writes:
 > Isn't the datatype now:
 > 
 > 	DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance#string";
 > ?

Yes.  Thanks for the catch.

 > Now, if you do not regard the data as a string, and you actually give
 > it a data type, i.e. extension to standard XACML, I wonder what happens
 > for the following problem.
 > 
 > Does the data within the attribute value have to be completely contained?
 > 
 > For example, if you have <ds:KeyName>jhibberi-key</ds:KeyName> where is
 > the "ds:" name space defined? (In the begining of the context? of which it
 > cannot be guarranteed to be there) Or in the attribute value?

The ds: name space must be defined in the beginning of the
context if "ds:" is used in an XML fragment.  If it is not
defined there, then there will be an error parsing the XML
context.

Anne
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