- From: Scott Cantor <cantor.2@osu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 09:49:44 -0500
- To: "'Thomas Roessler'" <tlr@w3.org>, "'Frederick Hirsch'" <frederick.hirsch@nokia.com>
- Cc: "'XMLSec WG Public List'" <public-xmlsec@w3.org>
Thomas Roessler wrote on 2010-02-09: > I might be dense right now -- but why do you rule out: > > - relative URI references? (../../foo/bar/) For some reason I didn't think these were supported in Reference (nor do they generally make any sense in most signature applications I'm involved with) but I had no particular reason for that. > - shorthand XPointers? (#foo) The only difference between them and the regular fragment syntax is the handling of comments, which is irrelevant for the purposes of this use case. A typical implementation here won't be doing anything with node sets or following any of the "usual" rules for fragments anyway. > - empty URI references? (the current document) That would be a circular reference in which you had a KeyInfoReference as a child of the KeyInfo it pointed to. -- Scott
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