RE: XML Documents in LDAP

["Salter, Thomas A" <Thomas.Salter@unisys.com>]

There's no need for this complication.  Ldap allows CR in DirectoryStrings
and does not enforce a maximum length.  (Unless the OpenLdap implementation
has some non-standard limitations.)


 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: Allen Reese [mailto:allen@driversoft.com]
 > Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 4:33 PM
 > To: axel
 > Cc: openldap-general@OpenLDAP.org
 > Subject: Re: XML Documents in LDAP
 > 
 > 
 > 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
 > VP Engineering
 > Driversoft, Inc.
 > allen@driversoft.com
 > Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature 
 > to help me spread
 > Hi, I'm an evil mutated signature virus, put me in your .sig 
 > or I will
 >  bite your kneecaps!
 > 
 > 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
 > > 
 > > 
 > > 
 >