RE: [widgets] DigSig - proposed change to XML Signature Properties from Scott Cantor on 2010-01-07 (public-xmlsec@w3.org from January 2010)

From: Scott Cantor <cantor.2@osu.edu>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 14:30:40 -0500
To: "'Arthur Barstow'" <Art.Barstow@nokia.com>, "'public-webapps'" <public-webapps@w3.org>, "'Frederick Hirsch'" <frederick.hirsch@nokia.com>
Cc: <public-xmlsec@w3.org>
Message-ID: <022501ca8fcf$e5aaf8f0$b100ead0$@2@osu.edu>

Arthur Barstow wrote on 2010-01-07:
> Frederick, Scott - would you please explain the rationale for the
> proposed change?

I was asked to produce an XSD for the Signature Properties document, and I
saw that it was using an overly complex syntax to express something that's
just a URI. Using complex XML types tends to bother some people's software
much more than using simple text node element content does.

It's just a personal observation based on experience. If you have this in
running code and don't want to change it, that's fine.

-- Scott

Received on Thursday, 7 January 2010 20:02:56 UTC