Widget DigSign: Example of a distributor signature document is buggy

Hi Marcos,

The position of the <object> element in the example provided in
http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets-digsig/ section 1.4 is not correct in that
the <object> occurs before the <SignatureValue>. 

The DTD provided fo the XMLDIG11
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xmldsig-core1-20090226/xmldsig-core-schema.
dtd and also the example
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xmldsig-core1-20090226/signature-example.xm
l instruct us that it should occur AFTER the <SignatureValue>. 

The major problem with the example is that even it is non-normative it
may be used by implementors as a template, and some existing XML
security tools  chains (i.e. Apache XML security library) will fail to
process a template that has the <object> in the wrong order. 

Kind regards,
Christian

Received on Tuesday, 6 October 2009 13:44:37 UTC