- From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 12:47:06 -0400
- To: w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org
- Cc: reagle@w3.org, Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, w3c-i18n-ig@w3.org
I just have had a look at http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xml-exc-c14n-20020718, and found two problems, one of them i18n-related. 1) encoding underspecified? The exclusive canonical form of a document subset is a physical representation of the XPath node-set, as an octet sequence, produced by the method described in this specification. This does not at all say what the encoding is. Is this UTF-8? If yes, where is this specified? If no, what is the encoding? Is the reader supposed to go check elsewhere? 2) what is 'visible'? The document says "namespace nodes that are not on the InclusiveNamespaces PrefixList are expressed only in start tags where they are visible and if they are not in effect from an output ancestor of that tag." The word 'visible' turns up only one more time, again not in a defining context. Readers probably can work out what 'visible' is supposed to mean from context and examples, but that's not how a spec should work, I guess. Regards, Martin.
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