RE: Prefix rewriting considerations

• From: Scott Cantor <cantor.2@osu.edu>
• Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:50:11 -0400
• To: "'Meiko Jensen'" <Meiko.Jensen@rub.de>, <public-xmlsec@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <009e01cadb3a$25bed550$713c7ff0$@2@osu.edu>

> continuing with today's discussion on prefix rewriting I wanted to bring
> up the prefix-free canonicalization we published last year (ACM SWS
> 2009). The approach basically consists in rewriting every XML element to
> a representation like this: <localname xmlns="namespace-uri"> This way,
> you don't need prefixes at all (besides for the attributes),

Isn't that a major caveat? If you still have to deal with them for
attributes anyway, what's the advantage?

-- Scott

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