Re: Alternative Canonicalization Draft

• From: TAMURA Kent <kent@trl.ibm.co.jp>
• Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 17:27:48 +0900
• To: w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org
• Cc: muraw3c@attglobal.net
• Message-Id: <200006010827.RAA21238@ns.trl.ibm.com>

> John's alternative approach to C14N (in XPath instead of InfoSet context,
> though the results aren't that different aside from the changes we
> explicitly discussed) is at:
> 
> http://www.w3.org/Signature/Drafts/WD-xml-c14n-20000601.html

This draft is not acceptable at all.

Existing XML processors does not inform whitespaces outside the
root element to applications, and SAX parsers can not inform
comments.  To modify XML processors for this specification is
impractical.

I know the XPath processes comments and whitespaces outside the
root element.  It is better approach to write a note what is
interoperable XPath expressions for XML Signature Transform than
to modify existing XML processors.

-- 
TAMURA Kent @ Tokyo Research Laboratory, IBM

Received on Thursday, 1 June 2000 04:28:28 UTC