+xns
Service: Core

 
Contains data referenced by all services, as well as the abstract base message definition class.

See specifications: XML Schema Definition (XSD)


 

Message Summary
Message A communication sent to an identity and from an identity or an application.
 

Data Summary
Domain Collection of identities that share a common legal owner.
DomainOwner The legal owner of a domain.
Group A collection of identities and other groups that have some aspect in common.
GroupOwner The owner of the definition of a group.
INT A non-negative integer.
IdentityDef The set of attributes that describe and classify an identity.
IdentityTypeEnum Categories by which an identity can be classified based on the nature of the principal it represents.
Membership A pointer to a group to which an identity or another group belongs.
MsgStateEnum Life-cycle states of a message.
Ref A reference to an XML element within the identity document.
XLink A data synchronization relationship between the containing XNS object and another XNS object.
XNSException The details of a failed message.
XNSObject A person, place, concept or thing that has attributes expressible in XML and that is addressable in XNS.
 

Datatype Summary
AbsoluteAddress An XNS address that must be absolute but can be either an XNS ID or XNS name and can resolve to either an identity node or a data node within an identity.
ComplexType Complex XML type as defined by the XML schema specification.
DataID An ID that is relative to the root node of an identity document.
DataIDNode An XNS object in an XNS ID path that terminates in a node below the root node of an identity document.
DataName A name that is relative to the root node of an identity document.
DataNameNode An XNS object in an XNS name path that terminates in any node below the root node of an identity document.
HostID The IdentityID of a host identity.
ID A unique non-semantic identifier for a node in an identity document.
IdentityAddress The address of an identity within the XNS network.
IdentityDataAddress An absolute value that resolves to a lower-level node within an identity document.
IdentityDataID An absolute value that resolves to a lower-level node within an identity document.
IdentityDataName An absolute value that resolves to a lower-level node within an identity document.
IdentityID A persistent globally unique identifier for an XNS identity.
IdentityIDNode An XNS object in an XNS ID path that terminates in the root node of an identity document.
IdentityName An absolute name for an XNS object at the root node of an identity document.
IdentityNameNode An XNS object in an XNS name path that terminates in the root node of an identity document.
Name A path that can begin with either 1) one of the three identity namespace prefix symbols, or 2) a double forward slash representing the abstract XNS name root identity managed by XNSORG.
NamespaceSymbol A symbol used to indicate the three XNS-defined absolute namespaces.
OID Object Identifier; one or more unique integers used in a dot-delimited path starting from a root node to form a unique ID for each object in the path.
RelativeDataID An XNS ID that can only be resolved in a known context, i.e., from a specific node in an identity document.
RelativeDataName An XNS name that can only be resolved in a known context, i.e., from a specific node in an identity document.
SimpleType Simple XML type as defined by the XML Schema specification.
Text Text in the form of a string.
URI Uniform Resource Identifier.
URN Uniform Resource Name as specified in IETF RFC 2141.
Version A value used to specify the change history of an object.
VersionDate A version value in the XML dateTime datatype format specified by W3C XML Schemas Part 2.
VersionNumber An integer representing the version of the object.
XMLByteArray An ordered arrangement of data elements.
XMLDateTime A time instant as defined by the W3C XML schema specification.
XNSAddress The top-level form of any address meeting the requirements of the XNS Addressing Specification.
XNSID A permanent semantic identifier of any XNS object.
XNSName A mutable semantic identifier of an XNS object.
 

Service Dependencies
+xns/Authentication
+xns/Certification
 


Publishing Identity: +xns
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Last Updated: 07/09/2002