rohe/pysaml2 — pull request #15 by paulftw (2012-12-14 13:03:57+00:00)
Title: Add support for raw xml metadata in the config dict

In my project the IdP metadata is read from the database, and it'd be a hassle to create a file on disk just for the sake of loading it back to memory.
It is likely not hard at all to just call import_metadata directly, so this api change wouldn't be necessary.

However, supporting "inline" array seems like a much simpler approach.