- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 15 Jun 2001 16:01:17 +0100
- To: w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org
So after much discussion and boneheadedness on my part, I've understood what the problem is, and observe that it is not an option to require enveloping applications to solve it -- as it stands there is no way to un-declare a namespace prefix -- so some form of exclusive cannonicalisation is required. I guess I think the exposition in 6.5.2 of the suggested fix [1] is not as clear as it might be -- I'd suggest that actually providing alternative paragraphs for 'Element Nodes' and 'Namespace Nodes' to those in section 2.3, as well as an alternative formulation of the relevant paragraphs of 2.4, would be much less likely to lead to misunderstandings. I.e. give new text, and say 'exclusive canonicalisation works as canonicalisation would with these replacements in place'. ht [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-ietf-xmldsig/2001AprJun/att-0293/01-sigport.html -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh W3C Fellow 1999--2001, part-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/
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