AW: Canonical XML comment (example 3.4)

Hi John,

Thanks for clarification. I have not been aware of this substantive
change in attribute value normalization.

Regards, Gregor
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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: w3c-ietf-xmldsig-request@w3.org
> [mailto:w3c-ietf-xmldsig-request@w3.org]Im Auftrag von John Boyer
> Gesendet: Freitag, 15. September 2000 00:21
> An: Gregor Karlinger; XMLSigWG
> Betreff: RE: Canonical XML comment (example 3.4)
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>
> Hi Gregor,
>
> Actually, I did originally intend to violate the validity constraint as is
> done in XML errata 70 (with an NMTOKENS in their case) in order to
> demonstrate the attribute value normalization that occurs in this case.
>
> However, the example is still wrong, not because of validation failure but
> rather because the leading and trailing spaces need to be
> removed.  As well,
> I should probably highlight the existence of this purposeful validity
> constraint violation in Section 3.4 and in the paragraph at the top of
> section 3.
>
> As well, I will suggest removal of the line containing that element for
> those creating canonical forms with a validating processor, and I
> will add a
> line that shows the validating processors should use.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: w3c-ietf-xmldsig-request@w3.org
> [mailto:w3c-ietf-xmldsig-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Gregor Karlinger
> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 10:28 PM
> To: XMLSigWG; John Boyer
> Subject: Canonical XML comment (example 3.4)
>
>
> Hi John,
>
> In example 3.4 you declared the attribute "id" for the element
> "normId" as being of type ID. An ID attribute value must meet
> the name production according to XML 1.0 [1]. Therefore the
> value you are using in the input document will produce a parsing
> error:
>
> <normId id=' &apos;   &#x20;&#13;&#xa;&#9;   &apos; '/>
>
> [1] http://www.xml.com/axml/target.html#sec-attribute-types
>
> Regards, Gregor
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> Gregor Karlinger
> mailto://gregor.karlinger@iaik.at
> http://www.iaik.at
> Phone +43 316 873 5541
> Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications
> Austria
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