- From: Scott Cantor <cantor.2@osu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:20:19 -0400
- To: <public-xmlsec@w3.org>
It looks like I was assigned an action last call to find out whether the schema would accommodate the proposal to add some kind of digested data length information. ds:Reference is not attribute or element extensible, but the ds:DigestMethod child element that identifies the digest algorithm is element extensible. But I don't know what the impact on existing implementations would be to add a child element there. Ideally they would ignore it for algorithms defined today, that don't take any parameters, but they could be more brittle. I think those RELAX schemas are also performing validation based on the URI attribute and possibly precluding child content in ds:DigestMethod since those algorithms don't define any children today. OTOH, it's probably a fairly appropriate place to put it (though obviously the ideal would be an attribute on DigestMethod, which isn't possible). -- Scott
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