Re: XML?

["Dan Dickey" <ddickey@wamnet.com>]

"MCGARRAHAN, KENNETH L (SWBT)" wrote:
> 
> We routinely "stuff" XML files into an attribute declared as "binary" in our
> OpenLDAP Directory implementation.

That's not quite what I was thinking.  :)

I've had time to read a bit more, and am learning.

Basically; what we needed to do here was use ldap from the
start - we are creating a directory off of an Informix database,
but the initial desired format was XML.  So I have a bunch of
XML files - 1 per entry in the directory.
I want to take these XML files and do *whatever* to them,
and make the information available in an ldap server (slapd?).
Showing that I can run ldapsearch and "see" the data will be
enough to me to know I'm on the right track.

The correct way to do the above of course is to have the
database populate the directory directly - without going
through XML.  If LDAP proves useful to us here, we may
do just that.  Of course, there is always the time factor. :)


Currently, I'm down to learning about ldap.conf that appears
to tell slapd what the data will look like, and what the "schema"
is (correct?).  I'm currently working by looking at test002-populate
to see how it populates a Directory; it doesn't seem to be using
the schema that I'd like to use.  Any idea on what I can read
to know how to create a ldap.conf file?  The man page seems
mostly useless with respect to schema's.

Thanks for any and all help!
	-Dan

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Dan A. Dickey
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