association

Specifies the key which uniquely identifies an entry in the external application.

Description

The association can be any character string such as the entry's distinguished name or a number. The DirXML engine stores the association in the DirXML-Associations attribute of the eDirectory entry. It is used for the following tasks:

  • The publisher shim sends the <association> element to the DirXML engine as an event notification when an entry in the external application has been modified, moved, renamed, deleted, or added.
  • The DirXML engine sends the <association> element to the subscriber shim with a add, delete, modify, move, or rename command.
  • Both the DirXML engine and the DirXML driver send the <association> element to specify the base object of a query command.
  • Both the DirXML engine and the DirXML driver send the <association> element when returning <instance> elements that match a query.

Definition

  <!ELEMENT association      (#PCDATA)>
  <!ATTLIST association
            state            (%Assoc-State;)      #IMPLIED

Attributes

state
Reserved, used internally by the DirXML engine.

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