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In the common case that you're faced with someone providing made-up names for SAML Attributes, you may or may not need to take extra steps with the rules by setting the nameFormat XML attribute. There are basically three cases, SAML 1.1 usage, one of the actual alternative NameFormat values in SAML 2.0, and the extremely ill-advised SAML 2.0 constant for "unspecified" naming.
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