Metadata support: EntitiesDescriptor/@Name handling

[Cantor, Scott]

On 8/16/13 3:39 PM, "Brent Putman" <putmanb at georgetown.edu> wrote:

>Ok.  Would you mind summarizing though what you think we ought to do
>right now, in terms of the metadata resolver code?  I can't quite
>parse/combine all of the above, and I'm not sure if you're suggesting we
>should (for v3) represent @Name as an extensions entity attribute, or as
>object metadata.

I slightly favor object metadata, but as long as the entity attribute is
defined in our own URI space, I don't think there's any chance of conflict
and so it wouldn't hurt anything to use an entity attribute.

As a recommendation, what I'm saying is that we'd be telling people to
rely on entity attributes going forward and migrate their dependency on
the old group approach to that one.

But I don't really favor us defining a standard attribute publically for
this at the moment.

-- Scott