Shibboleth Developers

[Scott Cantor <>]

> No, I do not believe it supports aliased pointers.  OTOH, my 
> intention was to ship all the variable information (read: 
> attributes) as an XML strings rather than parsed data.  Yes, 
> it means you need to reparse for every request, but my hope 
> is that parsing the SAML isn't a high-overhead operation 
> (compared to, say, the network latency).

I understand, I was just curious about ONC for my own reasons.

We haven't done any benchmarks, really. One obvious optimization is not
to revalidate, since the SHAR has already done it once. Might be able to
use SAX to parse the attributes also, which is cheaper than DOM.
Building a DOM is almost a requirement to keep OpenSAML from becoming a
nightmare to write, but just regulping fragments of known content isn't
too bad in SAX.

-- Scott

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