RE: Assertions and query architecture proposal

At 06:04 AM 6/5/01 -0700, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>The query language appears to introduce highly structured data that is not
>formatted in XML. The Query Language appears to me to be very much more
>complex than regular expressions and involve a lot of unspoken assumptions
>about policy becomming explicit in the SAML architecture. If I am not
>allowed my trailing * to indicate 'all the resources within this hierarchy'
>then I think that the query language has to be excluded.

I believe an XML serialization for XML Query is planned very soon.  It 
seems pretty attractive that there's already software for it and a 
significant developer community is poised to accept it.

         Eve

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Eve Maler                                             +1 781 442 3190
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