schema viewing

[Nuno Miguel do Espirito Santo Gomes de Oliveira <NOliveira@eid.pt>]

How can an ldap client know what attributes apply to an entry it is trying
to add?
My bet is on publishing the schema in the directory itself, but the rfc 2252
sintax for attribute types I tried to use isn't recognized by the slapadd
parser.

dn : cn=subschema
objectClass : top
objectClass : subschema
attributeTypes : ( 2.5.4.3 NAME ( 'cn' 'commonName' ) SUP name )

the error message was:
slapadd : could not parse entry (line=5)

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Nuno