Re: ACTION-49: C14n 1.1 Illustrate proposed changes by example

Hi Konrad,

I agree with the technical basis for the change. May I suggest some
changes (prefixed with Comment:) to the text to make it a little more
readable:

Comment: In #1, break up first sentence into two sentences.

1. The input buffer is initialized with the now-appended path components
.  Replace occurrences of "//" in the input buffer with "/" until no
more occurrences of "//" are in the input buffer. If the input buffer
starts with a root slash "/" the output buffer is initialized with this
root slash "/" otherwise with the empty string.

Comment: Break up A into two bullets (I call them A1 and A2, but it
really should be A and B and the rest of the list moves down a letter).
I also tweaked the wording in A2 to make it more clear to me (but please
check - hopefully I didn't change the meaning)

A1.  If the input buffer begins with a prefix of "./", then remove that
prefix from the input buffer ; otherwise,

A2. if the input buffer begins with a prefix of "../" and the output
does not contain the root slash "/" only, then move this prefix to the
end of the output buffer else remove that prefix  ; otherwise,

Comment: C needs to be broken up into several sentences or sub-bullets.
It is too long and hard to follow.

C. if the input buffer begins with a prefix of "/../" or "/..", where
".." is a complete path segment, then replace that prefix with "/" in
the input buffer and if also the output buffer is empty, last segment in
the output buffer equals "../" or "..", where ".." is a complete path
segment, then append ".." or "/.." for the latter case respectively to
the output buffer else remove the last segment and its preceding "/" (if
any) from the output buffer; otherwise,

Comment: Break up D into two bullets:

D1. if the input buffer consists only of ".", then remove that from the
input buffer; otherwise,

D2. if the input buffer consists only of ".." and the output buffer does
not contain only the root slash "/", then move the ".." to the output
buffer else delete it; otherwise,

This should close my action item #37.

--Sean


Konrad Lanz wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> A simple example should illustrate the need to change the current text:
> 
> Remove_Dot_Segments("no/../") did evaluate to "/" but should evaluate to
> the no-op (i.e. "" or null) .
> Remove_Dot_Segments("no/../yes") did evaluate to "/yes" but should
> evaluate to "yes".
> 
> Remove_Dot_Segments("../")  should also equal to
> Remove_Dot_Segments("..")  resulting in  "../".
> 
> Other examples can be derived when trying the Exmples in
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xmlsec-maintwg/2007May/att-0044/Apendix.html.
> 
> The proposed changes relate to the so called '* several changes as in
> "Remove Dot Segments" ... (see Apendix)' in section 2.4 cf.
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n11/#DocSubsets" referring to the Appendix
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n11/#appendix".
> 
> The proposed changes are outlined in :
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xmlsec-maintwg/2007May/att-0044/Apendix.html
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xmlsec-maintwg/2007May/0044.html
> 
> In the Attachment is an image showing the difference between
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n11/#appendix" and
> "http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xmlsec-maintwg/2007May/att-0044/Apendix.html".
> Blue text indicates additions. Deletions are indicated on the right side
> (Glöscht is German for deleted).
> 
> 
> 
> 
> some more points:
> 
> * When copy pasting the edits  I must have missed an important edit in
> (2 C.) maintaining relative URI references - the following test case
> indicates it's need .
> Remove_Dot_Segments("no/.././/pseudo-netpath/seg/file.ext") did evaluate
> to "/pseudo-netpath/seg/file.ext" but should be
> "pseudo-netpath/seg/file.ext"
> 
> s/remove the last segment and its preceding "/" (if any) from the output
> buffer/remove the last segment and its preceding "/" (if any) from the
> output buffer and if hereby the first character in the outputbuffer was
> removed and it was not the root slash then delete a leading slash from
> the input buffer/
> 
> I'm happy to take an Action to update my proposal for early CR Feedback.
> 
> * btw. (editorial Change) there is a typo in section 2.4 s/Apendix/Appendix/
> 
> Konrad
> 
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