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NameIDFormatFilter
- Scott Cantor
- Takeshi Nishimura
- Rod Widdowson
Namespace: urn:mace:shibboleth:2.0:metadata
Schema: http://shibboleth.net/schema/idp/shibboleth-metadata.xsd
Overview
A filter of type NameIDFormat adds SAML <md:NameIDFormat> elements to metadata in order to drive software behavior (primarily Name Identifier format selection).
Sequences of string-valued <Format> elements are supplied as filter content. When a child element such as <Entity> or <ConditionRef> or <ConditionScript> evaluates to true, the formats are applied to all the recognized format-supporting roles of the corresponding entities. The filter does not have the capability to limit the roles to which formats will be attached.