OpenSAML user discussion

["Scott Cantor" <>]

> Does this explanation help a bit more on what the problem is?

I know this much...if you want the XML content to be directly composed with 
the AttributeValue element, than you need to instantiate your XMLObject class 
with a builder call that overrides the element QName to be 
saml:AttributeValue.

That's legal, and is actually what is meant by an xsi:type of your element's 
type. This confuses people, who seem to often think that an xsi:type like 
that would imply that their element would show up inside the <AttributeValue> 
element. It also breaks a lot of commercial code, although in fairness, any 
XML inside an attribute value will break them. (This is actually a major 
point...think long and hard before using complex attribute values. Nothing 
much supports them.)

Anyway, if what you want is your element inside the <AttributeValue> element, 
then the piece you're missing is that you need to build the AttributeValue 
object first, and then add your object as a child element to it.

I can't give you code, but I know that conceptually the Java works more or 
less like my code does, and that's how you'd do it in mine.

-- Scott