What is XED?
The XML Enabled Directory (XED) framework leverages existing Lightweight
Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and X.500 directory technology to create
a directory service that stores, manages and transmits Extensible Markup
Language (XML) format data, while maintaining interoperability with LDAP
clients, any LDAP enabled application, X.500 Directory User Agents (DUAs),
and X.500 Directory System Agents (DSAs).
They are:
a) semantically equivalent XML renditions of existing directory protocols,
b) XML renditions of directory data.
c) the ability to accept at run time, user defined attribute syntaxes specified in a variety of XML schema languages.
d) the ability to perform filter matching on the parts of XML format attribute values,
e) the flexibility for implementors to develop XED clients using only their favoured XML schema language.
How can XED Help?
The XML Enabled Directory allows directory entries to contain XML formatted
data as attribute values. Furthermore, the attribute syntax can be specified
in any one of a variety of XML schema languages that the directory understands.
The directory server is then able to perform data validation and semantically
meaningful matching of XML documents, or their parts, on behalf of client
applications, making the implementation of XML-based applications easier
and faster. XML applications can also exploit the directory's traditional
capabilities of cross-application data sharing, data distribution, data
replication, user authentication and user access control, further lowering
the cost of building new XML applications.
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