Section 4.3.3.2, Reference Processing Model http://www.w3.org/2007/xmlsec/Drafts/xmldsig-core/#sec-ReferenceProcessingModel As an aside, there's some language in 4.3.3.2 that references the URI spec for the definition of a "same-document URI-Reference." Unfortunately, the meaning of that has changed between the URI spec that is referenced in xmldsig-core and the currently valid one (RFC 2396 vs. RFC 3986): Same-document references are now (in RFC 3986) defined in terms of the base URI; the purely syntactic definition ("URI references with an empty URI", i.e., just a fragment identifier) from RFC 2396 is no longer there. However, XML Signature relies on that syntactic definition and actually replays it in the specification text to a large extent. I'd therefore propose to explicitly say that, for the purposes of xmldsig-core, we mean a URI Reference with no URI part (thereby replaying the syntactic definition from 2396); the current editor's draft includes that change. We can then go on to bump the normative reference from 2396 to 3986. Regards, -- Thomas Roessler, W3C <tlr@w3.org>Received on Tuesday, 17 July 2007 14:51:39 GMT
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