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Hi Matthew,

I'm not sure if it's just your email client, or if it's in the actual file, but there seems to be an extraneous Unicode character just before your </rp:RelyingParty> that may not be visible in many editors/fonts.

Might be worth a try just deleting that.

John Gilbertson
Computing Services Department
The University of Liverpool

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From: Discussion list for Shibboleth developments [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Matthew Slowe
Sent: 13 February 2013 12:34
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Subject: Element 'RelyingParty' cannot have character [children]

I am trying to set up a new IdP from scratch... 

With 2.3.8 (and downgrading to 2.3.6), I am getting the following error while starting up:

12:27:12.317 - ERROR [edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.common.config.BaseService:188] - Configuration was not loaded for shibboleth.RelyingPartyConfigurationManager service, error creating components.  The root cause of this error was: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-complex-type.2.3: Element 'rp:RelyingParty' cannot have character [children], because the type's content type is element-only.

I have added a manual RelyingParty element (for Office365) inside the <rp:RelyingPartGroup> element:

    <!-- Microsoft Windows Azure AD -->
    <rp:RelyingParty id="urn:federation:MicrosoftOnline" 
                     provider="https://manasseh.kent.ac.uk/idp/a/shibboleth" 
                     defaultSigningCredentialRef="IdPCredential"
                      nameIDFormatPrecedence="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:nameid-format:persistent"
                     >
            <rp:ProfileConfiguration xsi:type="saml:SAML2SSOProfile" 
                                  signAssertions="conditional"
                                  encryptAssertions="never"
                                  encryptNameIds="never" />
    </rp:RelyingParty>

If I comment out the whole block then it's ok.

If I remove the ProfileConfiguration element and turn it into an "attribute only" thing (<rp:RelyingParty ... />) then it's ok.

All the examples say this should be ok ... and is ok on another of my IdPs.

Full copy of the relying-party.xml at http://pastebin.com/aVCrBjnK

I can't see the problem :( Please help...

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Matthew Slowe
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