Attribute Definition and SAML2String Attribute Encoder type

[Cantor, Scott]

> (1) Does the name have to be an oid?  If so, since this is a brand new
> attribute, can I just make-up the value?

https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/AttributeNaming

> (2) If I have a static connector that defines two different
>     attributes, abcSchoolNumber and xyzSchoolNumber, can I have a
>     single Attribute Definition, SchoolNumber, that releases one or
>     the other based on different entityIDs?

With a script, or some fairly ugly use of the Template definition, otherwise no. You could also just populate all the values and use filter rules to control which ones make it out.

-- Scott