Re: [sunxacml-discuss] Re:AttributeSelector Ussage

[Prakash Y. <te...@gm...>]

Seth/Muhammad,

I was wondering if the implementation cannot check if there is a
datatype handler registered and just invoke it for the
AttributeSelector?

Muhammad - do you see any issues in doing it this way?

After all even in AttributeSelector we are(can) specify the DataType.

prakash

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 15:46:42 +0100, Muhammad Masoom Alam
<Muh...@ui...> wrote:
>  
> Dear seth,
> This email was that i posed on xacml user list , plz have a look 
>   
> 
> 
> 
> > Daniel - I think you missed Prakash's point. It's not that he wants 
> > AttributeSelector to return a generic DOM node, it's that he wants it to 
> > be able to use an arbitrary node as the root for some data, which may be a
> > single value or may be mixed content. True, in the standard there are no 
> > datatypes that support this, but you can write a custom datatype (and 
> > custom functions) that do. When you do so, you can't select it with an 
> > AttributeSelector since that mechanism is restricted to work only with 
> > attributes/text/etc.
> 
> what about my presented solution, like what are your comments ?
> 
> <Apply FunctionId="SECTINO: Extract-parameter-from-request">
>         <AttributeValue  ="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string">
>                
> /Request/Action/Attribute[@AttributeID="p"]/AttributeValue/p/ID
>         </AttributeValue>
> </Apply>
> 
> 
> 
> in response the the request
> <Request>
> ..
> ..
> <Action>
> <Attribute AttributeId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:attribute:p"
>                 DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#String">
>  <AttributeValue  DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#String">
>    &lt;p&gt;
>     &lt;iD&gt;127Asbc &lt;/iD&gt;
>     .
>     &lt;/p&gt;
>    </AttributeValue>
>      </Attribute>
> </Action>
> .
> .
> </Request>
> 
> since it deals with not only single values, but mixed contents agreed??
> what are the discrepencies in your opinion as you are the author of 
> sun-xacml implemenation, is this makes any conflict with your implemenations
> functions by the way ???
> 
> regards
> Muhammad. 
>