Re: XML Protocol comments on Exclusive Canonicalization

[Resulting document:
  http://www.w3.org/Signature/Drafts/xml-exc-c14n
  $Revision: 1.27 $ on $Date: 2002/01/10 20:09:49 $ GMT by $Author: reagle $
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Thank you for your comments Paul!

Paul Denning wrote:
>As discussed in the telecon, here is additional comments on Exclusive XML 
>Canonicalization [4]:
>Add a section 2.3 that uses actual SOAP messages as an example.

I considered this might be useful as an informative appendix and reviewed [a] for examples (1-5) that would be useful to show a payload being selected via XPath and exc-c14n However, things are relatively straightforward. I'm not sure it would demonstrate anything more about exc-c14n or SOAP over that which is already shown in the very examples that try to simply demonstrate some of the concepts involved. (See end of email for example.)

[a] http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part0/

>Also, section 1.1 terminology, could use examples to illustrate apex node 
>and orphan node.

Ok, please see simple (ps-tree like) diagram and description now in the spec.

>In section 2.2, the 3rd example uses a namespace prefix "ns3", which I 
>think should be "n3".  See <ns3:stuff> within <n1:elem2 ....

Fixed.

>Section 3, should reinforce that the begins with "One method for 
>implementing ..." is non-normative.

/+(non-normative)+/

>I am still collecting my thoughts on other ideas triggered by reading this 
>document, but these are more concerned with words we should add to 
>SOAP 1.2  documents, rather than anything additional for XML 
>Encryption WG  documents.  For example,

I'm interested in the reslolution of the issues you identified for the XP WG? Have the been addressed?

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I took the example 1, selected the content of the env:Header. [1] the result being [2]. 
c14n_nodelist = xpath.Evaluate('(//. | //@* | //namespace::*)[ancestor::env:Header]', context=con)

(Note that the example in  the spec isn't well-formed. (For example, the closing m:reference tag is missing a prefix. There were other problems I can't identify and maybe were related to my cut-paste from the browser...)

In the result you see that m:reservation now has the env: declaration, and some of the attributes/ns nodes have been re-ordered but that is already shown in the spec.

[1]
eg3 = """<?xml version='1.0' ?>
<env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-envelope">
 <env:Header>
    <m:reservation xmlns:m="http://travelcompany.example.org/reservation"
           env:actor="http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-envelope/actor/next"
           env:mustUnderstand="true">
    <m:reference>uuid:093a2da1-q345-739r-ba5d-pqff98fe8j7d</m:reference>
    <m:dateAndTime>2001-11-29T13:20:00.000-05:00</m:dateAndTime>
  </m:reservation>
  <n:passenger xmlns:n="http://mycompany.example.com/employees"
     env:actor="http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-envelope/actor/next"
     env:mustUnderstand="true">
    <n:name>John Q. Public</n:name>
  </n:passenger>
 </env:Header>
 <env:Body>
  <p:itinerary xmlns:p="http://travelcompany.example.org/reservation/travel">
   <p:departure>
     <p:departing>New York</p:departing>
     <p:arriving>Los Angeles</p:arriving>
     <p:departureDate>2001-12-14</p:departureDate>
     <p:departureTime>late afternoon</p:departureTime>
     <p:seatPreference>aisle</p:seatPreference>
   </p:departure>
   <p:return>
     <p:departing>Los Angeles</p:departing>
     <p:arriving>New York</p:arriving>
     <p:departureDate>2001-12-20</p:departureDate>
     <p:departureTime>mid morning</p:departureTime>
     <p:seatPreference/>
   </p:return>
  </p:itinerary>
  <q:lodging xmlns:q="http://travelcompany.example.org/reservation/hotels">
   <q:preference>none</q:preference>
  </q:lodging>
 </env:Body>
</env:Envelope>
"""
[2]
    <m:reservation xmlns:env="http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-envelope" xmlns:m="http://travelcompany.example.org/reservation" env:actor="http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-envelope/actor/next" env:mustUnderstand="true">
    <m:reference>uuid:093a2da1-q345-739r-ba5d-pqff98fe8j7d</m:reference>
    <m:dateAndTime>2001-11-29T13:20:00.000-05:00</m:dateAndTime>
  </m:reservation>
  <n:passenger xmlns:env="http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-envelope" xmlns:n="http://mycompany.example.com/employees" env:actor="http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-envelope/actor/next" env:mustUnderstand="true">
    <n:name>John Q. Public</n:name>
  </n:passenger>





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Joseph Reagle Jr.                 http://www.w3.org/People/Reagle/
W3C Policy Analyst                mailto:reagle@w3.org
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