Re: [xacml] x500

[Erik Rissanen <erik@axiomatics.com>]

All,

These were defined before my time in the TC, but when I read the spec, 
it appears clear to me that "equal" returns true only on exact equality 
and "match" returns true if the first argument matches a terminal 
sequence of the second argument. In an example:

first argument: ou=xacml,o=oasis
second argument: dn=alice,ou=xacml,o=oasis

in this case

x500-equal -> false
x500-match -> true

Or at least this is my interpretation of "terminal sequence".

Best regards,
Erik


bill parducci wrote:
> does anyone recall why there is an x500Name-match and an 
> x500Name-equal function in the spec? they seem to serve the same 
> purpose however the latter is more concisely written and it almost 
> seems as if it was meant to supersede the -match function.
>
> thanks
>
> b
>
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