Re: XML Documents in LDAP

[Allen Reese <allen@driversoft.com>]

How about base64 encoding it?  I think that Novell has something in the
works for storing XML in their directory...  

I'm no expert but I think you can have a really long base64 string.

Allen Reese
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On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, axel wrote:

> For a project we want to store XML documents in an LDAP server. To store
> html is no problem. In html it's needed to use an cr because thereis for
> example the <br> to go to the next line. XML does not have something like
> this. Therefor another solution has to be found.
> 
> An XML-layout file looks like below (test.css):
> 
> KLASNAAM     {font-size: 16pt;color:
> black;font-weight:bold;display:block;text-align:center}
> KLAS     {display:block}
> PERSOON     {display:block}
> CIJFERS     {display:block}
> SEMESTER     {color: black;display:block}
> VAK     {font-size: 12pt;color: red;display:block}
> TENTAMEN     {font-size: 10pt;color: blue}
> HER     {font-size: 10pt;color: cyan}
> 
> Does anyone know a solution to put this file in the LDAP-directory structure
> 
> A xml file looks like below (test.xml):
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="test.css"?>
> <SCHOOL>
>  <KLAS>
>   <KLASNAAM> HI4 </KLASNAAM>
>   <KLASGENOOT>
>     <PERSOON>
>      <NUMMER>ux010934</NUMMER>
>      <NAAM>Frank Nijenhuis</NAAM>
>     </PERSOON>
>     <CIJFERS>
>      <SEMESTER>Semester <NUM>1</NUM>
>       <VAK>Geschiedenis <TENTAMEN> 4.5</TENTAMEN><HER> 5.3</HER></VAK>
>      </SEMESTER>
>     </CIJFERS>
>   </KLASGENOOT>
>   <KLASGENOOT>
>    <PERSOON>
>     <NUMMER>ux010583</NUMMER>
>     <NAAM>Axel van Duijkeren</NAAM>
>    </PERSOON>
>    <CIJFERS>
>     <SEMESTER>Semester <NUM>1</NUM>
>      <VAK>Geschiedenis <TENTAMEN> 4.5</TENTAMEN><HER> 5.3</HER></VAK>
>     </SEMESTER>
>     <SEMESTER>Semester <NUM>2</NUM>
>      <VAK>Engels <TENTAMEN> 1.0</TENTAMEN><HER> 5.1</HER></VAK>
>      <VAK>Gymnastiek <TENTAMEN> 2.5</TENTAMEN><HER> 8.0</HER></VAK>
>     </SEMESTER>
>    </CIJFERS>
>   </KLASGENOOT>
>  </KLAS>
> </SCHOOL>
> 
> So the problem is that these two files have to be inserted in an LDAP
> stucture. LDAP doesn't take carriage returns, how can this problem be
> solved???
> 
> In advanced thanx
> 
> Axel
> 
> 
>