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Re: [ldapext] VLV: a particular target entry

At 02:51 PM 2002-09-25, David Boreham wrote:
>> distinguished name.
>
>Ah !
>
>> 
>>         VirtualListViewRequest
>>         ...
>>           CHOICE {
>
>So you're asking for the ability to specify DN in place of
>an attribute name, in the target specification ?

No, I'm asking to specify DN in place of byoffset or
greaterThanOrEqual.

>Seems reasonable. Is there a reason why 'dn' can't
>be submitted as an attribute name ? (I suspect there is,
>I don't know enough about X.500 to undersand why 
>dn is different to other attribute names).

A number of reasons, but most importantly:

The DN is to specify the target entry in an ordered list,
not how to order the list (which what the attribute
name is used for).

Kurt

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