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As of V3.4, all use of sourceAttributeID is fully deprecated, and the old <Dependency> element itself has been replaced by explicit use of <InputAttributeDefinition> and <InputDataConnector> elements. Most of the examples have been updated to reflect this syntax.
XML Namespaces 3.3
In all versions prior to V3.3, the configuration will contain elements in multiple namespaces. With V3.3, every non-deprecated feature can be defined in the main urn:mace:shibboleth:2.0:resolver namespace (and thus defaulted to avoid the need for prefixes). The lone exception is the specification of security credentials when connecting to data sources (LDAP mainly).
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