Fwd: C14n11 Potential Error in "3.8 Document Subsets and XML Attributes"

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regards, Frederick

Frederick Hirsch
Chair, W3C XML Security WG

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> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: Frederick Hirsch <w3c@fjhirsch.com>
> Subject: Re: C14n11 Potential Error in "3.8 Document Subsets and XML Attributes"
> Date: July 7, 2015 at 2:45:20 PM EDT
> To: Konrad Lanz <Konrad.Lanz@iaik.tugraz.at>
> Cc: www-xml-canonicalization-comments@w3.org, XMLSec <public-xmlsec-maintwg@w3.org>, public-xml-core-wg <public-xml-core-wg@w3.org>
> 
> Konrad
> 
> This correction has already been noted in the Errata for C14n11 as of 2008-09-16
> 
> Please see  http://www.w3.org/2008/05/xml-c14n11-errata
> 
> This errata page is linked from the REC itself, see the text under "Authors" on the cover page, http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n11
> 
> Thus there is nothing more to be done at this time. 
> 
> Thanks for asking.
> 
> regards, Frederick
> 
> Frederick Hirsch
> Chair, W3C XML Security WG
> 
> www.fjhirsch.com
> @fjhirsch
> 
> 
> 
>> On Jun 9, 2015, at 6:39 AM, Konrad Lanz <Konrad.Lanz@iaik.tugraz.at> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> There is still a bug in the C14n11 examples (pls. see below), maybe it should be fixed before it's known for seven years ;-)
>> 
>> KR
>> Konrad Lanz
>> 
>> Am 18.06.2008 um 17:21 schrieb Konrad Lanz:
>>> Dear all,
>>> 
>>> I suspect there is an Error in "3.8 Document Subsets and XML Attributes"
>>> 
>>> http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n11/#Example-DocSubsetsXMLAttrs
>>>> Canonical Form
>>>> <e1 xmlns="http://www.ietf.org" xmlns:w3c="http://www.w3.org"
>>>> xml:base="something/else"><e3 xmlns="" id="E3"
>>>> xml:base="something/bar/foo" xml:space="preserve"></e3></e1>
>>> Shouldn't that rather be:
>>> 
>>> <e1 xmlns="http://www.ietf.org" xmlns:w3c="http://www.w3.org"
>>> xml:base="something/else"><e3 xmlns="" id="E3" xml:base="bar/foo"
>>> xml:space="preserve"></e3></e1>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> regards
>>> 
>>> Konrad
>>> 
>> 
>> <Nachricht als Anhang.eml>
>

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