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AW: Erratum in Exclusive Canonical XML

From: Gregor Karlinger <gregor.karlinger@iaik.at>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 09:10:32 +0100
To: "'Joseph Reagle'" <reagle@mit.edu>, "'Rich Salz'" <rsalz@datapower.com>
Cc: "'XMLSigWG'" <w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org>
Message-ID: <002001c3a9bd$9d4bced0$b98e1b81@GKARLINGER>
Tweaking the erratum would be perfect.

/Gregor
 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Joseph Reagle [mailto:reagle@mit.edu]
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 12. November 2003 16:49
> An: Rich Salz; Gregor Karlinger
> Cc: XMLSigWG
> Betreff: Re: Erratum in Exclusive Canonical XML
> 
> On Wednesday 12 November 2003 10:04, Rich Salz wrote:
> > Gregor Karlinger wrote:
> > >   "... The value of this attribute is a white space
> > >    delimited list of namespace prefixes ..."
> >
> > I think this is not as good as the current text.  When I read this, it
> > is not clear to me that the list can be empty.
> >
> > Perhaps
> >      If not empty, the value of this attribute is interpreted as a
> >      white-space delimited list of namespace prefixes ...
> 
> If I understand, the problem is that NMTOKENS was inapproriate for *two*
> reasons, so does simply tweaking the erratum (instead of adding a new
one)
> address the issue?
> 
>       This does not permit <ins>"non-zero-length sequences," or</ins>
the
>       occurrence of the '<code>#default</code>' token in the attribute
> value
>       because of the "#" character.



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