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Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 10:21:40 +0100 (CET)
From: "Antonio Fiol (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] Commented: (COCOON-1775) LdapTransformer: LDAP attributes
 may not contain ";"
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Antonio Fiol commented on COCOON-1775:
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I will try, but don't expect it in less than one week. I'm overloaded at the moment. I'll take the second approach if nobody asks otherwise.

> LdapTransformer: LDAP attributes may not contain ";"
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
>          Key: COCOON-1775
>          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COCOON-1775
>      Project: Cocoon
>         Type: Bug
>   Components: Blocks: Naming
>     Versions: 2.1.8
>     Reporter: Antonio Fiol
>     Assignee: Jean-Baptiste Quenot

>
> I found a case where the LDAP attribute name is:
> description;lang-en
> LDAPTransformer tries to create an element such as:
> <ldap:description;lang-en>something</ldap:description;lang-en>
> This is not valid XML and causes an exception.
> In fact, this attribute naming scheme complies both with RFC 2596 [1] and RFC 2252 [2], so the behaviour of LDAPTransformer is somehow wrong.
> Three possible approaches:
> - Investigate further on the meaning of name;something other than name;lang-something and try to map that into meaningful XML attributes.
>     e.g. description;lang-en --> <ldap:description xml:lang="en">
> - Split the attribute name at the first ";" and put the rest as an attribute. For example, the attribute could be called "attrs".
>     e.g. description;lang-en --> <ldap:description attrs="lang-en">
> - Remove the ";" character or change it into something else.
>     e.g. description;lang-en --> <ldap:description_lang-en>
> IMHO the third approach is the worst because it defeats the LDAP purpose of ";" which is to specify a characteristic of what is specified before. And I don't have a strong opinion whether the first approach is better than the second or vice-versa.

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