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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+    default-lazy-init="true"
+    xmlns:c="http://www.springframework.org/schema/c"
+    xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
+    xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
+    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+    xsi:schemaLocation="
+        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+        http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.0.xsd">
+
+    <!--
+        *********************************************************
+        ***                                                   ***
+        ***   I M P O R T   E N T I T Y   B L A C K L I S T   ***
+        ***                                                   ***
+        *********************************************************
+    -->
+
+    <!--
+        Entities listed in the set below will be discarded from the eduGAIN channel.
+
+        Because the normal behaviour is to silently discard entities which fail to
+        pass the checking rulesets, entities are only added to this set when the basic
+        processing fails to resolve a problem.
+    -->
+    <util:set id="int_edugain_entity_blacklist">
+
+    </util:set>
+
+</beans>