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RE: XML?
> >
> > I've had time to read a bit more, and am learning.
> >
> > Basically; what we needed to do here was use ldap from the
> > start - we are creating a directory off of an Informix database,
> > but the initial desired format was XML. So I have a bunch of
> > XML files - 1 per entry in the directory.
> > I want to take these XML files and do *whatever* to them,
> > and make the information available in an ldap server (slapd?).
> > Showing that I can run ldapsearch and "see" the data will be
> > enough to me to know I'm on the right track.
> >
> > The correct way to do the above of course is to have the
> > database populate the directory directly - without going
> > through XML. If LDAP proves useful to us here, we may
> > do just that. Of course, there is always the time factor. :)
>
> Interpretting your question as: 'How do I get my XML files
> into the directory?'
>
I think the more interesting thing is to push the XML document directly into a
LDAP server with out having a translation from XML->LDIF->upload. One of the
great benefits of XML is the ease of being able to do transformations and
mappings from one XML dialect to another. In this case, the transformaton would
be from the source XML document to the XML representation of one or more entries
in the LDAP server.
Ed
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Eduardo Saltelli
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webMethods, Inc.
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Email: esaltelli@webMethods.com