Metadata support: EntitiesDescriptor/@Name handling

[Cantor, Scott]

On 8/16/13 4:20 PM, "Ian Young" <ian at iay.org.uk> wrote:

>For example, rather than turning something like @Name into faked-up SAML
>metadata entity attributes, I'd favour essentially the opposite: have an
>*object* metadata representation of the grouping concept, prime it with
>the @Name hierarchy and provide a filter that extracts *that* from
>user-specified *SAML* metadata entity attributes.

You could, for compatibility, but since our metadata constructs are
entirely about SAML metadata, I don't know if that's more straightforward
to explain or not. It seems like adding the filtering step is just adding
a step.

-- Scott