Re: [xacml] [Polar] PH09: New section 7.4.2 Attributes

[Polar Humenn <polar@syr.edu>]

Seth,

For the capability you ellude to below you use the map function;

<Apply FunctionId="function:map">
    <Function FunctionId="function:double-floor">
    <AttributeDesignator DataType="....#double" ....../>
</Apply>

Cheers,
-Polar

On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Seth Proctor wrote:

>
> On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 01:25:54PM -0500, Polar Humenn wrote:
> > You use "anyof" in this way.
>
> Yes, I understand how anyOf is used, but it means that you can't nest Apply
> blocks that have functions that expect single values. Ie, in the example
> you give
>
> > <Apply FunctionId="function:AnyOf">
> >     <Function FunctionId="function:string-equal">
> >     <AttributeValue Datatype="....#string">Hello World</AttributeValue>
> >     <AttributeDesignator ....../>
> > </Apply>
>
> I know that there was one match to the value "Hello World" but I don't get
> back that value, I get a boolean value instead. If I have an add function that
> is inside of a floor function (for instance), I can't use anyOf to somehow
> make sure that bags with only one value get handled correctly by the
> functions, since I want to need to have the add function return a number,
> not a boolean. The comment in the change request was that anyOf can somehow
> be used to solve this, and my point is that it cannot.
>
>
> seth
>