RE: Potential issues in XML Schema files pointed out from XML Sig v1.1?

If you really need this capability, the easiest solution would be to ask Admin at W3C to establish the required alias URI.

As Scott has pointed out, the need to retrieve the schema should be rare and not a routine operational process.

Hal

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Juan Carlos Cruellas [mailto:cruellas@ac.upc.edu]
> Sent: Monday, June 08, 2015 7:40 AM
> To: public-xmlsec@w3.org
> Subject: Potential issues in XML Schema files pointed out from XML Sig
> v1.1?
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> When looking at the XML Schema files pointed by XML Sig v1.1 I have
> found the following:
> 
> 1. At the so-called "driver" file, at
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core1/xmldsig1-schema.xsd, I have noticed
> the following include:
> 
> <include
> schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xmldsig-core-
> 20080610/xmldsig-core.xsd"/>
> 
> Please note that trying to retrieve a file from the URI within
> schemaLocation attribute results in a file not found error
> (404)....instead making a retrieve operation on
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xmldsig-core-20080610/xmldsig-core-
> schema.xsd"
> results in the correct file.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 2. At the xml schema file in
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core1/xmldsig11-schema.xsd, corresponding
> to the xml schema for types and elements within xmldsig11 namespace,
> the two first lines are:
> 
> <schema targetNamespace="http://www.w3.org/2009/xmldsig11#"
> version="0.1" elementFormDefault="qualified"> <import
> namespace="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#"/>
> 
> but the import element does not have the schemaLocation attribute that
> allows applications to automatically retrieve the xml schema defining
> types and elements for xmldsig namespace...shouldn't it be such a
> schemaLocation with a value http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xmldsig-core-
> 20080610/xmldsig-core-schema.xsd?
> 
> 
> Could you please confirm if you also see them as issues that could need
> to be fixed? and if so, could you please make an estimation on how and
> when they could be fixed?
> 
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Juan Carlos.
> 
>

Received on Monday, 8 June 2015 15:53:21 UTC