Patent ID: 7778992

Claim:
A selection method comprising: providing, by a computing system for a requestor, access to said computing system, wherein said computing system comprises a memory system, wherein said memory system comprises group based access control data and computing resource data, wherein said group based access control data and said computing resource data are organized based on an extensible markup language (XML) schema, and wherein said XML schema comprises a recursive format used to support a plurality of branch levels in a resource tree; associating, by said computing system in response to said enabling, first group data of said group based access control data with said requestor; receiving, by said computing system from said requestor, a first request for accessing said computing resource data; associating, by said computing system in response to said first request, said first group data with a first group of computing resources of said computing resource data; generating, by said computing system, a first list comprising attribute values for said first group of computing resources, wherein said attribute values are associated with an XML string that conforms to said XML schema; and presenting, by said computing system to said requestor, said first list.