- From: Gregor Karlinger <gregor.karlinger@iaik.at>
- Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 10:15:37 +0200
- To: "John Boyer" <jboyer@PureEdge.com>, <w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org>
- Cc: "TAMURA Kent" <kent@trl.ibm.co.jp>
Hi John, > 3) Whitespace Text node descendants of the root. The toolsets' > elimination > of this whitespace would seem to be in contradiction of section > 2.10 of the > XML spec. However, the point is moot since the problem can be > solved by the > same idea as #2 above. The XPath expression to opt out of this is given. > Therefore, if your particular XML processsor can't support their > inclusion, > then set up your application context such that it is clear that you are > using something with behavior that is equivalent to the XPath expression > provided. Since neither the XML Infoset [1] nor the XPath data model [2] allow text children in the root element, I don't see a good foundation for your interpretation of [3]. Regards, Gregor --------------------------------------------------------------- Gregor Karlinger mailto://gregor.karlinger@iaik.at http://www.iaik.at Phone +43 316 873 5541 Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications Austria ---------------------------------------------------------------
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