- From: merlin <merlin@baltimore.ie>
- Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 18:52:57 +0100
- To: Aleksey Sanin <aleksey@aleksey.com>
- Cc: w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org
Hi Aleksey;
r/aleksey@aleksey.com/2002.05.31/10:40:46
>Thanks for your explanation. I agree with you that your result
>seems correct. However, the C14N spec has following example:
>
>Section 3.3 (http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n#Example-SETags)
> <e6 xmlns="" xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org">
> <e7 xmlns="http://www.ietf.org">
> <e8 xmlns="" xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org">
> <e9 xmlns="" xmlns:a="http://www.ietf.org"/>
> </e8>
> </e7>
> </e6>
>
> is canonicalized to
>
> <e6 xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org">
> <e7 xmlns="http://www.ietf.org">
> <e8 xmlns="">
> <e9 xmlns:a="http://www.ietf.org" attr="default"></e9>
> </e8>
> </e7>
> </e6>
>
>Can you explain why there is no xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org" declaration
>in <e8>, please?
Sure; that document fragment is not an XPath node set, it
is a serialized XML document. When parsed, the XPath node
set will be:
<e6 xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org">
<e7 xmlns="http://www.ietf.org" xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org">
<e8 xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org">
<e9 xmlns:a="http://www.ietf.org"/>
</e8>
</e7>
</e6>
That is to say, xmlns="" does not exist in the XPath node
set, and all the namespace attributes are propagated down.
So, the xmlns:a namespace node on e8 is suppressed because
it is present in the node set of the nearest ancestor of
e8, e7 which, during parsing, inherited it from e6.
Merlin
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