Attribute Definitions

After the optional scope line, the bulk of the service advertisement contains attribute/value list pair lines. Each pair consists of the attribute tag, followed by an equal sign, followed by a comma-separated list of attribute values, or a single value if the attribute is single valued. In the previous example of a proxy registration file, line 8 illustrates a value list with multiple values; all other value lists have single values. The format for the attribute names and values is the same as on-the-wire SLP messages.

For a description of the format see RFC 2608. The proxy registration file supports the same convention for escaping non-ASCII characters as the configuration file. For more information about the proxy registration file format, see RFC 2614.