AW: Errors in the XML-Signature spec. examples (Namespace defaulting for attributes)

Don,

thanks for clarification. Indeed, I misunderstood the word
"directly" in the centence of section 5.2 of the namespace spec.

Regards, Gregor
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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: w3c-ietf-xmldsig-request@w3.org
> [mailto:w3c-ietf-xmldsig-request@w3.org]Im Auftrag von Donald E.
> Eastlake 3rd
> Gesendet: Freitag, 11. August 2000 14:15
> An: Gregor Karlinger
> Cc: XML
> Betreff: Re: Errors in the XML-Signature spec. examples (Namespace
> defaulting for attributes)
>
>
>
> Is this really a problem?  I thought that attributes without namespace
> prefixes were automatically considered within the context of the
> element where they occur.  In effect, the namespace qualified name of
> the element is the default "namespace" for attributes of that element.
>
> Take the first exampe in section 5.2 of the Namespaces document which
> you point to.  It has an <a> element using the default namespace of
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40.  This element has an href attribute.
> How are you supposed to understand what that attribute means unless
> you consider it to, in some sense, be in the "namespace" of the
> element where it occurs?  I.E., that it is part of the "Per Element
> Partition" defined in section A.2 of the Namespaces document.
>
> In your example below, just saying "Id" is, in effect, saying
> "XMLSignature:Signature:Id" except that syntax is prohibited...
>
> Presumably this is the reason for the odd wording:
> "Note that default namespaces do not apply directly to attributes."
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>
> Donald
>
> From:  "Gregor Karlinger" <gregor.karlinger@iaik.at>
> To:  "XML" <w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org>
> Date:  Fri, 11 Aug 2000 12:21:04 +0200
> Message-ID:  <NDBBIMACDKCOPBLEJCCDMEHNCJAA.gregor.karlinger@iaik.at>
>
> >Hi Joseph & Merlin,
> >
> >while trying to verify Merlins signature examples with our
> implementation,
> >I detected the following problem, which applies to Merlins examples as
> >well as to the examples in the XML-Signature specification in chapter 2.
> >
> >All the examples are constructed in the following way: A default
> namespace
> >attribute is declared in the Signature element (see line [s01] in chapter
> >2.1),
> >which should apply to all descendants as well.
> >
> >The problem is, that a default namespace does not apply to descendant
> >attributes, but only descendant elements
> >(see http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#defaulting).
> >
> >I suggest to assign the XML-Signature namespace via a explicit namespace
> >attribute (line [s01] could look like
> >
> >  <XMLSignature:Signature
> >    XMLSignature:Id="MyFirstSignature"
> >    xmlns:XMLSignature="http://www.w3.org/2000/07/xmldsig#">
> >
> >Regards, Gregor
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> >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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> >
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