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Re: graphs in LDAP



At 09:28 AM 2/24/2003 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Antonio Beamud wrote:
>
>> I'm new in LDAP world.. I want to define a structure like this:
>>
>>                                        my.com
>>                                         /       \
>>                                    people    services
>>                                     /     \        /     \
>>                                    /       \     /         \
>>                                  x            y            z
>>                                   \          /
>>                                     \      /
>>                                       w
>>
>> I'ts posible define this graph and not only a tree... If it can't be
>> done...the solution to this problem is replicate the object 'y' and de
>> object  'w'...
>
>An entry may have at most one parent; it's a tree, not a graph, so it
>cannot be done that way.  Depending on what you want to do, you might
>consider using aliases, or a "seeAlso" attribute that refers to the other
>entry.

Correct, but still, if there are some tools that can create "graph"
representation from ldif/schema file this would be great. something like
UML in OO or ER diagram in DB. 
any such tools (commercial/opensource)?