2.3.3 Synthetic Attributes

In addition to containing the LDAP attributes of a directory object, the XML view of that object contains up to four additional attributes that are not part of that object's representation stored in the directory service (that is, the four attributes are constructed by the server implementing the ADWS protocol set). These are referred to as the synthetic attributes of ADWS. They can be distinguished from LDAP attributes because the elements that represent the synthetic attributes have names that are in the http://schemas.microsoft.com/2008/1/ActiveDirectory XML namespace rather than in the http://schemas.microsoft.com/2008/1/ActiveDirectory/Data XML namespace that is used for LDAP attributes and classes. Additionally, the LdapSyntax XML attribute is never included in the XML representation of a synthetic attribute.

The four synthetic attributes are specified in the following subsections.