<association>

• <!ELEMENT association (#PCDATA)>

• <!ENTITY % Assoc-State "not-associated | associated | disabled | migrate | pending | manual">

• <!ATTLIST association

• state (%Assoc-State;) #IMPLIED>

  • The content of an <association> element is a unique key provided by the application identifying the source object of an event or the target object of a command.
  • The key is used to associate objects in the directory with an object in another application
  • The state attribute is used internally for control purposes.