Metadata support: EntitiesDescriptor/@Name handling

[Ian Young]

On 15 Aug 2013, at 23:50, Brent Putman <putmanb at georgetown.edu> wrote:

> My intuition is that it's probably an extensions entity attribute,
> correct?  Does there exist already a standard attribute name, profile,
> etc for this, or are we going to have to devise something?

As Scott says, no, and I don't recall one having been discussed anywhere either.

We could invent one, or we could work with either MACE-Dir or REFEDS.  Worth a few minutes on today's call?

> I thought
> maybe the metadata aggregator might already have a stage that does this,
> but I couldn't find one (although I don't really know that code at all).

The aggregator can match and filter and do whatever on almost anything (e.g., via XPath), not just entity attributes, so it has never really come up.

	-- Ian



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