- From: Joseph Reagle <reagle@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 17:40:02 -0400
- To: "Tom Gindin" <tgindin@us.ibm.com>, "Ed Simon" <edsimon@xmlsec.com>
- Cc: "Roman Huditsch" <roman.huditsch@hico.com>, <w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org>
On Thursday 16 May 2002 11:28, Tom Gindin wrote: > Maybe I'm confused about the standard, but I don't see a "Type" > value for transparent binary data or a transform for it. Does a > Reference with both Type and Transforms omitted mean binary? It is octets or a node-set. [[ URI="http://example.com/bar.xml#chapter1" Identifies the element with ID attribute value 'chapter1' of the external XML resource 'http://example.com/bar.xml', provided as an octet stream. Again, for the sake of interoperability, the element identified as 'chapter1' should be obtained using an XPath transform rather than a URI fragment (barename XPointer resolution in external resources is not REQUIRED in this specification). ... The data-type of the result of URI dereferencing or subsequent Transforms is either an octet stream or an XPath node-set. ... If the data object is a node-set and the next transform requires octets, the signature application MUST attempt to convert the node-set to an octet stream using Canonical XML [XML-C14N]. ]]
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