Fwd: The RELAX NG schema for XML-Signature

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> From: ext MURATA Makoto <eb2m-mrt@asahi-net.or.jp>
> Date: May 9, 2009 10:37:25 AM EDT
> To: "Hirsch Frederick (Nokia-CIC/Boston)" <Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com>
> Cc: Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org>, "MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given)" <eb2m-mrt@asahi-net.or.jp 
> >
> Subject: Re: The RELAX NG schema for XML-Signature
>
> Frederick,
>
> Thank you for your very helpful advice.  Please feel free
> to forward this mail to the XML Security WG.
>
> A non-normative RELAX NG schema (E.5.2) in ISO/IEC 29500-2:2008 relies
> on a RELAX NG schema for XML Digital Signature.  Here ISO/IEC
> 29500-2:2008 is Open Package Conventions (Part 2) of OOXML.
>
>
>> E.5.2  XML Digital Signature Core
>>
>> xmldsig-core-schema.rnc (a RELAX NG schema in the compact syntax)
>> can be created from xmldsig-core- schema.rng (a RELAX NG schema in
>> the XML syntax), which is available at
>> http://www.w3.org/Signature/2002/07/xmldsig-core-schema.rng.
>
> Conformance testing and methodology has been discussed in SC34/WG4,
> which is responsible for the maintenance of OOXML.  Let me
> quote an e-mail from Dr. Alex Brown.  He is now the convenor
> of WG1 (DSDL) and a member of WG4.
>
>> Murata-san,
>>
>> You asked for an update on the proposed project for ISO/IEC 29500
>> (OOXML) conformance testing.
>>
>> After I first raised this idea on the WG4 mailing list it was  
>> discussed
>> during the teleconference of 16 April, where it received broad  
>> support.
>> I am currently working on a proposal and technical framework for this
>> work. Given the mood of the meeting it is, I think, very likely to
>> become a project within SC 34, and the work will either get  
>> proposed by
>> a WG, or by a National Body. It is possible the UK may propose this
>> project, but I must stress that currently this has not been formally
>> decided.
>>
>> Since the work will be taking place within SC 34, it is natural  
>> that SC
>> 34 technologies will be used for validation. My initial proposal uses
>> the RELAX NG schemas (and XProc) to perform XML validation of  
>> packages.
>>
>> It is therefore vital that all the RELAX NG schemas associated with
>> ISO/IEC 29500 are correct, since they will be used as the backbone of
>> document conformance testing.
>>
>> --
>> Alex Brown
>> Convenor, ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC 34 WG 1
>> Editor, ISO/IEC 19757-5 (Extensible Datatypes)
>
> You wrote:
>> If we are able to discuss next week, would you like to join
>> us during that session? (We are meeting in Boston 9-18:00 ET, so  
>> that might
>> be difficult for you to call in).
>
> Yes, I am very happy to call in.  Should I stress the importance of
> the correct RNG
> schema for XML signature?   Or, should I explain which part of the
> currently proposed
> RELAX NG schema hampers customization for OOXML?
>
> Best,
>
> Makoto (SC34/WG4 Convenor)

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