Shib SP - need help breaking out RequestMap into separate file

[Robert Rust]

* Robert Rust <robert.j.rust at uwrf.edu> [2017-08-31 23:33]:
    >And my RequestMap.xml file contains (comments removed for brevity and hosts obscured):
    ><RequestMap applicationId="default">
    
    No errors or anything in the logs? (I.e., the only effect you've
    observing is that the rules in the external file have no effect?)
    
    What happens when you introduce a syntactical error into the external
    file (e.g. making it not well-formed) and reload the SP? Does it b0rk
    as expected?
    
    Does the external file need an XML namespace declaration?
    If nothing else maybe xmlns="urn:mace:shibboleth:2.0:native:sp:config"?
    -peter
    
Peter -

I didn’t see anything in the logs suggesting problems or that it was even trying to look at the extra file.  I introduced a syntax error into the external file and it had no effect, even after adding validate=“true” to the RequestMapper. I also tried adding the XML namespace declaration you suggested, but as expected that did not work.  This isn’t a huge issue, since I was just looking for a way to make the mapping configuration more portable between our development and production servers (different hostnames involved).  Thanks for the suggestions!

-Robert