sunxacml-commit

[<se...@us...>]

Update of /cvsroot/sunxacml/sunxacml/com/sun/xacml/attr
In directory sc8-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv10187/com/sun/xacml/attr

Modified Files:
	StringAttribute.java 
Log Message:
changed to clarify the problem with XML Elements


Index: StringAttribute.java
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/sunxacml/sunxacml/com/sun/xacml/attr/StringAttribute.java,v
retrieving revision 1.2
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -C2 -d -r1.2 -r1.3
*** StringAttribute.java	29 Aug 2003 18:51:27 -0000	1.2
--- StringAttribute.java	7 Nov 2003 17:35:32 -0000	1.3
***************
*** 40,43 ****
--- 40,44 ----
  
  import org.w3c.dom.Node;
+ import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
  
  
***************
*** 46,49 ****
--- 47,57 ----
   * xs:string values. All objects of this class are immutable and
   * all methods of the class are thread-safe.
+  * <p>
+  * Note that there is currently some confusion in the XACML specification
+  * about whether this datatype should be able to handle XML elements (ie,
+  * whether &lt;AttributeValue DataType="...string"&gt;&lt;foo/&gt;
+  * &lt;/AttributeValue&gt; is valid). Until that is clarified the strict
+  * definition of the string datatype is used in this code, which means that
+  * elements are not valid.
   *
   * @author Marco Barreno
***************
*** 122,132 ****
      public static StringAttribute getInstance(Node root) {
          Node node = root.getFirstChild();
!         
          // Strings are allowed to have an empty AttributeValue element and are
          // just treated as empty strings...we have to handle this case
          if (node == null)
              return new StringAttribute("");
!         else
              return getInstance(node.getNodeValue());
      }
  
--- 130,152 ----
      public static StringAttribute getInstance(Node root) {
          Node node = root.getFirstChild();
! 
          // Strings are allowed to have an empty AttributeValue element and are
          // just treated as empty strings...we have to handle this case
          if (node == null)
              return new StringAttribute("");
! 
!         // get the type of the node
!         short type = node.getNodeType();
! 
!         // now see if we have (effectively) a simple string value
!         if ((type == Node.TEXT_NODE) || (type == Node.CDATA_SECTION_NODE) ||
!             (type == Node.COMMENT_NODE)) {
              return getInstance(node.getNodeValue());
+         }
+ 
+         // there is some confusion in the specifications about what should
+         // happen at this point, but the strict reading of the XMLSchema
+         // specification suggests that this should be an error
+         return null;
      }