Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.1 - PLUG-IN Manual page 194

Summary of Data Types and Structures
Slapi_DN
Represents a distinguished name in a directory entry.
Syntax
#include slapi-plugin.h
typedef struct slapi_dn Slapi_DN;
Description
Slapi_DN
name in the server plug-in.
The following table summarizes the front-end API functions that you can call to
work with distinguished names.
To do this...
Converts all characters in a DN to a
lowercase distinguished name to
make it case insensitive
Determine if a DN is equal to a
specified suffix
Determine if a DN is the parent of a
specific DN
Specify a distinguished name is a
root
Determine if the a DN is the suffix
of the local database
Convert a DN to canonical format
by normalizing the case and the
format. Handle a DN in the syntax
defined by RFC 22 and RFC 1779.
To handle some compatible with
older versions of Directory Server,
all of the syntaxes in the above
RFC's may not be supported.
Convert a DN to canonical format
and all characters to lower case
Normalize part of a DN value
Get a copy of the DN of the parent
of an entry
194 Netscape Directory Server Plug-In Programmer's Guide • August 2002
is the data type for an opaque structure that represents a distinguished
Call this function
slapi_dn_ignore_case()
slapi_dn_issuffix()
slapi_dn_isparent()
slapi_dn_isroot()
slapi_dn_isbesuffix()
slapi_dn_normalize()
slapi_dn_normalize_case()
slapi_dn_normalize_to_end()
slapi_dn_beparent()