Re: LDIF - pointing an attribute's value at another attribute in the same entry

[Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>]

Brian K. Jones wrote:
> So for example, while the Mozilla address book will
> request a 'description' for a person's entry, Evolution will request
> 'note' for the same exact thing.

Beat the Evolution folks for not sticking to standards. Instead they 
invented a broken schema. :-(

> So now I have a choice to make:
>
> 1.  I can alter the schema where the 'description' attribute is defined
> and make it answer to the 'note' requests as well. This alters a
> standard schema.  This is bad (tm)
> 2.  I can duplicate a value in my entry, which is really hard to
> maintain and is BAD - BAD data design.

3. Patch Evolution.

Ciao, Michael.