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Ah ok, well in metadata-providers.xml we have something like:</div>
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<MetadataProvider id=..<br>
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<Entity>https://github...</Entity>
<div><Entity>https://github...</Entity></div>
<div><Entity>https://github...</Entity></div>
<div><Entity>https://github...</Entity></div>
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Those git hub entity ids I can get just by grepping out of the metadata file - automatically and periodically. No need in this case to modify metadata-providers.xml itself if I can source the data from an external file. I can then just automatically and periodically
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> users <users-bounces@shibboleth.net> on behalf of Cantor, Scott <cantor.2@osu.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 19, 2021 7:35 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Shib Users <users@shibboleth.net><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: include statements in xml configuration files?</font>
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<div class="PlainText">On 2/19/21, 8:26 AM, "users on behalf of Ullfig, Roberto Alfredo" <users-bounces@shibboleth.net on behalf of rullfig@uic.edu> wrote:<br>
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> That's unfortunate, the vast bulk of the configuration files are structure - not data. It would make sense to me to store<br>
> the data separately and then sourced into the configuration.<br>
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Tthat's exactly what properties do. I keep coming back to the fact that there's a high probability that whatever it is you want to do can be done.<br>
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