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Posted to commits@directory.apache.org by jm...@apache.org on 2004/02/09 01:44:09 UTC

svn commit: rev 6599 - incubator/directory/ldap/trunk/xdocs

Author: jmachols
Date: Sun Feb  8 16:44:08 2004
New Revision: 6599

Modified:
   incubator/directory/ldap/trunk/xdocs/common.xml
Log:
Started to fill in the LDAP common section

Modified: incubator/directory/ldap/trunk/xdocs/common.xml
==============================================================================
--- incubator/directory/ldap/trunk/xdocs/common.xml	(original)
+++ incubator/directory/ldap/trunk/xdocs/common.xml	Sun Feb  8 16:44:08 2004
@@ -9,13 +9,35 @@
     <section name="Overview">
       <p>LDAP Common Code</p>
       <p> 
-      This project contains code and utiilities common to the LDAP protocol.
-      
-      Add packages here
+      This project contains code and utilities common to the LDAP protocol.
       </p>
-      
-      
-
+    </section>
+    <section name="LDAP Common Packages">
+      <subsection name="Filter">
+        <p>
+          The filter package will parsese and LDAP expression into 
+          a filter expression tree as defined in <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2254.txt">RFC 2254</a>
+        </p>  
+      </subsection>
+        
+      <subsection name="LDIF">
+        <p>
+          The The LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) parsing 
+          package Parses an LDIF into a multimap or a JNDI 
+          Attributes instance of attribute key/value pairs with 
+          potential more than one attribute value per attribute.  
+          This parser populates the MultiMap or Attributes 
+          instance with all attributes within the LDIF including 
+          control attributes like the 'dn' and the changeType.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          The package contain an LDIF entry class that can be used.  Along
+          with the parsing utility, the embedding application can LDIF
+          parsing and management without becomming an expert on the RFC.
+          Addition details about LDIF can be obtained from the 
+          <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2849.txt">LDIF RFC</a>
+        </p>
+      </subsection>
     </section>
   </body>
 </document>