potential entityID bug in IdP 3.2.1

[Cantor, Scott]

On 9/28/16, 1:29 PM, "users on behalf of Brent Putman" <users-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of putmanb at georgetown.edu> wrote:

>    Scott can weigh in if he thinks I'm wrong, but I think it worked as expected.  Leading
> and trailing whitespace inside an XML element value is usually not considered semantically
> significant, and it is stripped out when evaluating it.

It's generally problematic. There's no way in practice to make this clear via XML Schema, and what happens is people strip if they think it makes sense but it creates interop issues and the best answer is "don't wrap elements in protocols".

-- Scott