programmatic metadata validation by the SP

[Peter Schober]

* Ian Young <ian at iay.org.uk> [2012-02-17 13:13]:
> > Now the message is obvious enough, but I can't seem to find the
> > offending entry (tuning OpenSAML.MetadataProvider.XML to DEBUG log
> > level did not reveal any more info). But grepping and sorting
> > DisplayName elements from shows not a single one without what I
> > consider text content (in its ordinary language meaning, so I should
> > probably check the exact meaning of TextContent somewhere/the XSD).
> 
> https://shib.uni-klu.ac.at/idp/shibboleth appears to have empty
> mdui:DisplayName elements.

My bad, I briefly looked at what the complaining SP had written to
/var/run/shibboleth/ (instead of checking the source) and obviously
the elements with no TextContent where not in there.
Maybe logging surrounding elements might still be better than giving
no context.
cheers,
-peter