CMIS

Scoping and Filtering - Allows operations on multiple objects

Scoping selects one or more levels of the containment tree defined by a specified instance.

Scoping Options are:

the root node only

all nodes at level n, where the root is at level 0

the root and all nodes down to the n-th level

the whole sub-tree

Filtering selects from instances in scope based on any of the following:

managed object class

managed object instance

any of the MO's attributes

A filter is a logical expression which is passed as a data structure in the CMIP request. It specifies attributes and

their values and the types of comparisons to be made on each:

        equality, less-than-or-equal, greater-than-or-equal

substring

subset-of, superset-of

logical and, or, not