Multiple entity-category attributes or multivalued

[Cantor, Scott]

On 8/5/15, 10:30 AM, "users on behalf of Nate Klingenstein" <users-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of ndk at internet2.edu> wrote:


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>I guess I lack common sense again(typical), but I don’t see a radical difference between iterating over one set and iterating over a set of sets if the data is going to be flattened at the end anyway.

Because that adds work for every metadata consumer, of which there are many. It's exactly why the bug the OP asked about exists, in a different context.

>The specific use case that I had in mind was association of sets of entity tags with the attesting authority.  I guess that’s implicit in the name, or you can use an assertion.

Using a separate extension element that itself has no content wouldn't tell you anything about the attesting authority.

-- Scott