RE: Prefix rewriting considerations

Besides attributes, you also need to worry about QNames in content

e.g. if you have xsi:type="xsd:string"   what will you do with the xsd prefix ?


Pratik


-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Cantor [mailto:cantor.2@osu.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 11:50 AM
To: Meiko Jensen; public-xmlsec@w3.org
Subject: RE: Prefix rewriting considerations

> continuing with today's discussion on prefix rewriting I wanted to bring
> up the prefix-free canonicalization we published last year (ACM SWS
> 2009). The approach basically consists in rewriting every XML element to
> a representation like this: <localname xmlns="namespace-uri"> This way,
> you don't need prefixes at all (besides for the attributes),

Isn't that a major caveat? If you still have to deal with them for
attributes anyway, what's the advantage?

-- Scott

Received on Tuesday, 13 April 2010 18:55:14 UTC