Re: How much XML Signature is mature?

>I think they care to a degree, but they probably decided that it wasn't
>important enough to change the spec at this point since most 3D-Secure
>implementations do not use validating parsers.  They should have issued a
>'heads-up' message to implementers so the problem can be contained for
>future fix though.
>  
>
I am not sure I understand your point about validating parsers. The 
reason why there are resrtrictions
for ID attributes are exactly the same as why there are restrictions for 
the variable names in all known
to me programming languages. ID attribute might be included in a complex 
XPath/XPointer expression
and you have to be able to understand what "123+123"  means: is it "123" 
+ "123" or this is an ID attribute.

Aleksey

Received on Sunday, 19 October 2003 12:24:45 UTC