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[Peter Schober <peter.schober AT univie.ac.at>]

* Tomasz Wolniewicz <twoln AT umk.pl> [2015-01-26 11:05]:
>   at http://technical.edugain.org/entities2.php I have presented another
> go at the entity listing.

Thanks!

> 1. Entity categories - I have provided a "friendly naming" approach, Tom
> thinks that this may be misleading and do more harm then good, and
> suggests just using the URIs.

I'm having the same issue with SMEV, https://wayf.aco.net/smev/
(currently unavailable due to a server outage at Univie, it seems),
mostly due to space constraints.
So far I'm only displaying "known" ECs with a short name, among others
also because of the reason you mentioned of some ECs being defined as
"support" attribute and others plain. (E.g. DFN has categories for
IDPs that are not "support", so there's no clean seperation like
categories being for SPs and support categories being for IDPs.)

> 2. Entity details. If you click on this you will just see a popup with
> nothing useful inside, but this is where I intended to put nicely
> formatted information about this entity, therefore not just display
> names, but also description, contact information, requested attributes
> list, logo (however this is more complex then would appear at a first
> glance), etc. Tom Scavo thinks that this is overkill since people can
> read XML which, after all contains the full information and not just
> selected by us (this is why I intend to keep the full XML anyway). I
> would like to hear it people think about such functionality. If it is a
> general feeling that it is of no use then there is no point in
> implementing it.

Not sure what I'd like to consult that page for. (Unless REFEDS MET
never returns, that is.)
Furthermore I have the same issues with showing the XML I raised at
the beginning of this thread: Displaying unsigned XML for easy
copy&paste usage seems to encourage the wrong behaviour.
Noone should be fetching XML from there, IMO, so why display it?
-peter