A chance to make changes to the AttributeFilter language Element names, and a request.

[Cantor, Scott]

On 9/8/15, 11:21 AM, "dev on behalf of Ian Young" <dev-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of ian at iay.org.uk> wrote:

>> On 7 Sep 2015, at 17:52, Rod Widdowson <rdw at steadingsoftware.com> wrote:
>> 
>> b) Think about an xslt that will convert an old style (three namespace)
>> filter file to a new style (one namespace) one (ignoring the deprecated
>> functions)
>
>I'm kind of confused. IDP-808 is phrased as if the intent is to entirely remove the old namespaces, which would presumably break existing configuration files. Didn't think that was permissable in a minor version?

No, it isn't being removed, just deprecated.

>If that *isn't* what we mean, if instead we're allowing the various constructs to be expressed in new and simpler ways as an alternative (while perhaps deprecating the old scheme) then a conversion XSLT isn't required. So that seems inconsistent.

We were suggesting a conversion to help people switch from a deprecated syntax.

-- Scott