Metacat

  public String getPrincipals(String user, String password) throws

      ConnectException {

    StringBuffer out = new StringBuffer();

    out.append("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"US-ASCII\"?>\n");

    out.append("<principals>\n");

          out.append("      <description>" + groups[i][1] + "</description>\n");

          String[] usersForGroup = getUsers(user, password, groups[i][0]);

          for (int j = 0; j < usersForGroup.length; j++) {

            userIndex = searchUser(usersForGroup[j], users);

            out.append("      <user>\n");

      // for the users not belonging to any grou8p

      for (int j = 0; j < users.length; j++) {

          out.append("    <user>\n");

          out.append("      <username>" + users[j][0] + "</username>\n");

          out.append("      <name>" + users[j][1] + "</name>\n");

          }

          out.append("      <email>" + users[j][4] + "</email>\n");

          out.append("    </user>\n");

      }

      out.append("  </authSystem>\n");

    }

    out.append("</principals>");

    return out.toString();