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With the release of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) version3 in 1997M. Wahl, T. Howes, and S. Kille. Lightweight directory access protocol (V3). RFC 2251, December 1997., the popularity of directories to Store information about users, networks, etc. has been Steadily increasing. Even companies like Netscape or Microsoft offer LDAP support in their browsers and oper ating Systems, making directory Services a viable alternative to more traditional database Systems for the Storage and efficient retrieval of information. At the same time, the Internet community has been moving away from Static HTML to describe information on the web, towards more dynamic and easily configurable options that allow the decoupling of content, usually represented in form of XML data Tim Bray, Jean Paoli, CM Sperberg-McQueen, and Eve Maler. Extensible markup language (XML) 1.0 (second edition). www. w3. org …