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Re: [xacml] change request: xacml context attributes and data types

From: System
To: [email protected]
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 23:11:00 -0000

my point is that they *are* strings. for them to become specific data types you will have to perform real-time type validation; an operational point i know, but what would be the benefit of doing it this way? maybe i am missing something important here, but it seems that implied validation (validation during rule 'compilation', string comparison only thereafter) would be a whole heck of a lot more efficient. b Simon Godik wrote: > Polar, > I assume we have x500Name data type and rfc822Name data type. > (At least those types are mentioned in the current draft). > In other words, they are not merely strings. > In this case, in your example there is type conversion error > and result would be inderteminate. > Simon