- From: Cantor, Scott <cantor.2@osu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 13:38:23 +0000
- To: David Solin <david@joval.org>, Wendy Seltzer <wseltzer@w3.org>, "public-xmlsec@w3.org" <public-xmlsec@w3.org>
- CC: "Booth, Harold" <harold.booth@nist.gov>
On 10/22/14, 11:54 PM, "David Solin" <david@joval.org> wrote: > >The Java issue does pertain to the built-in support for XMLDSIG. Here is >a reference for you: >http://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8017171 Thanks, I'll take a look. >As for validation being indicated by c14n11, just so you know how this >crazy idea popped into my head, it came from reading the bullets: > >* Attribute values are normalized, as if by a validating processor >* Default attributes are added to each element The first bullet is just saying "you do this one thing in the same way that a validator would", but the second, I suspect, might be referring to DTDs. It's definitely not referring to XSD, but that's an obvious point of confusion. >... which are found in the definition of the term canonical form in >section 1.1 of the W3C recommendation (http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n11/). > I am not an attorney, but while > it certainly doesn't say you have to validate... really, it certainly >does appear to say you have to validate. DTD handling is also referred to as validation in the core XML specs. -- Scott
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