- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 04:25:07 -0500
- To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- CC: www-tag@w3.org
Tim Bray wrote: > - Interestingly, I suspect quite a few c14n implementations may have > missed that one. I know that my genx implementation misses it, and > furthermore, the application of Elliotte Rusty Harold's excellent test > suite failed to detect the bug (or maybe I just missed it, but I don't > think so). Anyhow, just maybe it's not too late to go back and fix XML > C14n. Both GenX and the test suite only work on complete documents. The problem only arises when doing document subset canonicalization. this means you have to have a complete document to start with. GenX doesn't. It just starts with strings so whatever comes out the other end is fine. A test suite that did test document subset canonicalization would be very helpful. It's a shame that C14N and exclusive C4N were allowed to get out the door without a normative test suite. Later efforts at the W3C seem to be doing better with this. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ref=nosim
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