www.novell.com dirxml & dsml 2 shon vella software engineer, consultant [email protected]
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DirXML™ and XML
• DirXML is a flexible data sharing service built on top of Novell Directory Services® (NDS®) eDirectory™
Shares data with disparate systems throughout the network
Most of the flexibility is achieved by encoding the shared data in XML and allowing configuration of Rules to transform that data
DirXML uses XSLT as a method of implementing rules
DirXML Architecture
Novell eDirectory DirXML Application
API
Event
Eventcaching
DirXMLengine
DirXML application
shim
eDirectory server
Purpose of Submission
• DirXML provides a superset of the functionality needed for a reasonable DSML proposal.
• We believe that we have encountered and solved many of the gotchas that DSML may run into.
• Because DirXML was designed for a specific application and to be used with both non-LDAP and LDAP based applications, it is probably overgeneral for a standard.
Current Position
• LDAP would be a good basis for a standard• With some modifications, the Microsoft
proposal is a good basis for DSML 2.0.