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Paul's xpath proposal

From: Erik Rissanen
To: [email protected]
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:02:00 -0000

Paul, All, Thanks Paul for the xpath proposal write up at http://wiki.oasis-open.org/xacml/XpathDiscussion Permanent link to the version I am discussing in this email: http://wiki.oasis-open.org/xacml/XpathDiscussion?action=recall&rev=1 It seems mostly good as far as I understand it and does not appear to have the performance issues that some of the ideas which have been floating around earlier. I have a few questions: 1. Regarding the request model, you propose a new element Request/Content[@Category="general"]. Can't we make it Request/Attributes[@Category="general"]/Content instead? It would have the same capabilities and the benefit is that we don't need to change the current schema or introduce new constructs to reach the new