- From: Joseph Reagle <reagle@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 10:02:56 -0400
- To: Christian Geuer-Pollmann <geuer-pollmann@nue.et-inf.uni-siegen.de>, merlin <merlin@baltimore.ie>
- Cc: Gregor Karlinger <gregor.karlinger@iaik.at>, w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org
On Friday 24 May 2002 04:36, Christian Geuer-Pollmann wrote: > I guess, NOW I got it. First of all, I can verify Merlin's signature now. > Just to check that I understood it right: > > If I c14nize a document subset, I do only have to make this weird xml:* > copying magic if the current element is an "orphan" node (to use this > exclc14n lingo term), i.e. if the parent of the element is not in the > document subset. > If the parent of the current element IS in the document subset, I do NOT > do the copying of all xml:* attrs, right? Yes, *and* when you do copy all the xml:* from the ancestors because of a missing parent element you go *all* the way up to the root, not just up to the next ancestor element in the subset. Counter-intuitive but the spec is clear once you get over your intuitions -- I had the same problem! [1] [1] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/xml-sig/2002-April/007665.html
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