<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Sion,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for your feedback.</div><div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Something that we have discussed a number of times in the past is why we have <br>the database replicating the xml file... It leads to problems of knowing which <br>is the correct information etc.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Well the XML data is still in the database, just encoded and collapsed to a single field in the policy table.</div><div>This encoded configuration is leading for enforcer operation. </div><div><div><br></div><div>I just got an eerie "Maslow's hammer" feeling when I noticed how it was stored, but perhaps I'm wrong.</div><div><br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>There is an argument for getting rid of it and just reading the xml.<br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div>One reason for keeping the database is for a future development where we <br>wanted a GUI configuration tool.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I guessed you'd probably want to generate and XML file and then tell the enforcer to import this policy.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div> (The original database was ruby on rails <br>compatible; I'm not sure if that is still the case.)<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is the first I've heard of it, I don't know why that is important</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>I just thought that I'd mention this in case it is still a possibility.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Nothing is set in stone yet, we are still going to discuss this later today.</div><div>For this test a lot of the time was spend on getting an accurate specification of the configuration data that is actually represented in the database and how that maps to the configuration file.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>René</div><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>