Attribute Exchange pre-draft 5

[Josh Hoyt]

On 4/2/07, Rowan Kerr <rowan at sxip.com> wrote:
> On 2-Apr-07, at 3:16 PM, Josh Hoyt wrote:
> > What about attributes whose value could reasonably be an empty string?
> > It would be reasonable to answer "don't do that," I'm just curious how
> > you expect this case to be handled.
>
> I'd say it's up to the RP to decide whether the data returned is
> valid for it's specific needs.

I'm thinking about differentiating between an attribute that's not
available and an attribute that *is* available, but its value is "".
I. e. difference between a null pointer, and a pointer to an empty
string.

Josh