Re: Test Case with xml-dsig

/ ht@inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson) was heard to say:
[...]
| Er, no, xml:base (which may or may not have come later), certainly
| does _not_ behave that way.  Consider 
|
| <root xml:base="../elsewhere" xlink:href="relative.html">
|  <internal xlink:href="relative.html"/>
| </root>
|
| Those two hrefs are to the _same_ absolute URI, which would not be
| true if xml:base were copied downwards!
|
| Richard Tobin first pointed this out, as far as I know.

Yes, thanks Henry. I don't think your example is actually complex
enough to demonstrate the problem though. If you canonicalize at the
root, there's no problem and if you canonicalize at internal, you get:

    <internal xml:base="../elsewhere" xlink:href="relative.html"/>

which is still OK. But add another level of hierarchy and I think
C14N does the wrong thing with xml:base too:

  <root xml:base="../elsewhere" xlink:href="relative.html">
    <intermediate xml:base="other">
      <internal xlink:href="relative.html"/>
    </intermediate>
  </root>

Now, by my reading of C14N, which may be incorrect, canonicalizing
internal would produce:

      <internal xml:base="other" xlink:href="relative.html"/>

which is wrong.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM / XML Standards Architect / Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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