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Namespace:urn:mace:shibboleth:2.0:metadata
Schema:http://shibboleth.net/schema/idp/shibboleth-metadata.xsd

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A filter of type ByReference is a new syntax aid that allows MetadataFilterConfiguration to be defined outside of <MetadataProvider> elements and reference named providers "out of band", separating the declaration of general metadata source details from deployer-specific filtering rues.

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The ByReference syntax relies on a set of child elements named <MetadataFilters> that contain a providerRef XML attribute identifying the the <MetadataProvider> to > to apply a set of filters to, and then the filters to apply are declared within, in the normal way.

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<MetadataFilters>

Each out of band declaration consists of a required XML attribute named providerRef and a sequence of zero or more <MetadataFilter> <MetadataFilter> elements of any of the normal types supported. V4.2+ allows providerRef to contain a space-delimited list of IDs of providers to apply the filter(s) to.

Example

The examples shows a typical usage pattern via a separate Spring resource loaded into the metadata resolver service by adding it to the resource set in conf/services.xml (e.g., perhaps in a file named conf/metadata-filters.xml)

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