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[Leif Johansson <leifj AT sunet.se>]

On 2019-09-20 15:29, Tomasz Wolniewicz wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
>    as you are well aware OT is running schema validation with both MDA
> and pyFF and they did not choke on it. In fact Validator2 does report
> this problem but only as a warning which is probably wrong.
> 
>  Looks like another specific rule to be added.
> 

There are a bunch of stuff that the libxml2 schema code doesn't catch.

The "funny" thing is that one of my SATOSA proxies (i.e pysaml2) choked
on this ... and this is iirc the same underlying library doing the
validation!

Its been one of those days. I'm just happy one of the many strange
things that bit my systems today wasn't actually a heisenbug but had
a perfectly reasonable explanation!

        Cheers Leif

> And by the why, while this being formally incorrect does this actually
> cause real problems in the IdP/SP side anywhere?
> 
> In fact we are publishing incorrect contact metadata with mail without
> the mandatory mailto prefix. This has been going for ages, and we have
> been talking about this but is still there.
> 
> Tomasz
> 
> 
> W dniu 20.09.2019 o 15:05, Peter Schober pisze:
>> @eduGAIN OT: Please consider testing XSD schema validity on imported
>> feeds before processing and re-publishing invalid metadata.
>