Re: Why is Except limited to local fragments?

On Friday 01 March 2002 12:05, merlin wrote:
> We may need a fragment of text to further clarify XPointer support
> when it is applied to a different document from the signature.
> In such a case, here() is an error and the XPointer initial context
> is the root of the new document? We don't have this problem with
> XPointers in dsig because they always refer to the same document.

I'm not sure I understand this, I'll defer to the authors. <smile/>

> On a separate note, should we profile the decryption transform to
> allow non-XML content (output is an octet stream)? 

We discussed the scenario below in September and Hiroshi suggested we would 
need a new function:
  Instead, we should define a new function that decrypts an
  xenc:EncryptedData element with a type other than Element
  or Content to an octet stream.  Also we have to state that
  when such an xenc:EncryptedData element is being
  decrypted, the input to the transform has to be a node-set
  that has the xenc:EncryptedData element as the first node.
  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-encryption/2001Oct/0000.html

As is my tendency I tend not to push for something unless someone says they 
want it. Hiroshi/Takeshi, is Merlin's usage scenario the same as what you 
were thinking? If so, would you like to propose some text?

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