- From: Edgar, Gerald <gerald.edgar@boeing.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 10:11:45 -0700
- To: "XMLSec WG Public List" <public-xmlsec@w3.org>
ID: ISSUE-7 (edit) State: OPEN Title: Can exi be used by xmlsec wg as part of solution Raised on: 2008-07-17 Product: v.next (Design for XML Signature V Next) I move to close this, since we are using EXI in the specification In the note at http://www.w3.org/2008/xmlsec/Drafts/transform-note/Overview.html 3.4.2.2 Canonical output need not be valid XML Assuming that a canonicalization step is necessary to be performed as the last step of reference processing before hashing of the resulting octet-stream, the requirement that XML canonicalization produce valid XML could be relaxed. Some interesting things can be done with this relaxation - namespace prefixes can be expanded out, tag names in closing tags can be omitted, and EXI serialization format can be used. ... Gerald Edgar, CISSP Enterprise Architecture & Information Security
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