Avoiding default XML Schema values [Best Practices]

http://www.w3.org/2007/xmlsec/Drafts/xmldsig-bestpractices/#avoid-default-schema-values

Shouldn't the last sentence rather say the following:

s/The net result being that what is verified will not be what was
signed./The net result being that what is verified will not be what was
signed and cause the signature to break./

Further as I mentioned before this Section deserves a note as follows,
which does not necessarily have to reference SC14n:

Note: Schema Centric Canonicalization (SC14n) has been proposed to
canonicalize XML with respect to an XML Schema (default values,
namespace prefix desensitization, namespace attribute normalization,
data-type canonicalization, data-type canonicalization). Besides the
UDDI context however, ScC14n seems to be only used in MPEG-21. Otherwise
- to our knowledge - it has hardly been used, nor yet as of 2008 been
implemented by major vendors of XMLDSIG implementations [X].

BR
Konrad

[X] http://tinyurl.com/MT-Konrad-Lanz-OASIS-DSS#nameddest=subsection.2.5.4

btw. Is there a reference somewhere in the minutes that indicates why
http://www.w3.org/2008/xmlsec/track/issues/75 is closed?

Opened: 2008-11-18
Closed: 2008-12-17

Could neither find in:
http://www.w3.org/2008/12/02-xmlsec-minutes
http://www.w3.org/2008/12/09-xmlsec-minutes
http://www.w3.org/2008/12/16-xmlsec-minutes

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