DSML

Recently, the need to join operations LDAP with XML in the use of the Web Services has given to the light a new called language Directory Services Markup Language (DSML). The most recent version is DSMLv2. DSML is a generic format for importare/esportare such information. In DSML the data of the directory can be were flavored between applications that support such format without to expose to the protocol 17 LDAP. XML offers a effective method in order to introduce and to transfer the data; the services of directory allow to share and to manage the data and are therefore a prerequirement necessary in order to carry out operations online. DSML is planned in order to render the service of directory more dynamic employing XML. DSML is an outline in XML in order to work with the directory, and is defined with a Document Content Description (DCD). Therefore DSML allows the programmatori of XML to approach directory the LDAP without having to that to make with interface LDAP or BEES for the access the directory, offering a consisting way in order to work with directory multiple and different.

Ldap has influenced the development of other protocols of net, like the Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML) and the Service Location Protocol.