- From: Joseph M. Reagle Jr. <reagle@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 14:47:42 -0500
- To: "IETF/W3C XML-DSig WG" <w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org>
I can't find the reference, but I remember being asked about the ability for attributes from external namespaces to be included within the Signature element types for extension purposes. For example: <Signature xmlns="..." xmlns:tricky="..." tricky:not-valid="Tuesdays"> ... Historically, they're hasn't been much support (or a proposal even) for this functionality. If there was, I'd have great concerns about it because of the interpretation folks would lend to such attributes (as demonstrated in the example above). I prefer people make syntactic extensions through the Object element, and semantic extensions (what it means and what you are signing) via SignatureProperties and Transforms. __ Joseph Reagle Jr. http://www.w3.org/People/Reagle/ W3C Policy Analyst mailto:reagle@w3.org IETF/W3C XML-Signature Co-Chair http://www.w3.org/Signature W3C XML Encryption Chair http://www.w3.org/Encryption/2001/
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