- From: Frederick Hirsch <frederick.hirsch@nokia.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:08:52 -0400
- To: "edsimon@xmlsec.com" <edsimon@xmlsec.com>
- Cc: Frederick Hirsch <frederick.hirsch@nokia.com>, Scott Cantor <cantor.2@osu.edu>, "'XMLSec WG Public List'" <public-xmlsec@w3.org>
Ed Is it possible for you to take an action to make a concrete proposal either for C14N11 errata and/or propose text for Canonicalization 2.0? regards, Frederick Frederick Hirsch, Nokia Chair XML Security WG On Sep 14, 2009, at 3:22 PM, ext Ed Simon wrote: > Yes, the clarifications would pertain to the c14n spec. I'm not saying > the spec is misleading, I am saying it is not clear and it needs to be > explicit as to what happens in cases like what I've suggested where > the > node set result is not just one or more element nodes or nodes that > are > valid root children of an XML document. > > Ed > > > On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 10:23 -0400, Scott Cantor wrote: >> Ed Simon wrote on 2009-09-09: >>> I believe we still need to clarify what happens, or should happen, >>> with the following results (adapted from my linked post mentioned >>> above) from the XPath Filter 2 Transform: >>> >>> For example, what is the prescribed >>> treatment of the following examples of node sets returned by an >>> XPath >>> Filter 2 Transform in order to produce a hashable octet stream?: >>> >>> * a node set containing an attribute node; >>> >>> * a node set containing a text node; and >>> >>> * a node set containing all the above plus an element node. >> >> These clarifications would pertain to the c14n specs, right? I >> believe the signature spec says that you always use an implicit >> c14n transform if the output is a node set and the next step >> requires an octet stream, so the text you're looking for would be a >> clarification to the c14n specs. >> >> Since they currently are written with respect to taking a "node >> set" as input, what's the misleading aspect you're trying to clarify? >> >> -- Scott >> >> >> >> > >
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