RE: DSig comments on XML Base

Hello Kevin,

As far as I understand, you are concerned for a good reason.
As far as I remember, the DOM specification allows to
expose the entity structure or to not do so. Do you have
any idea/data on which DOM implementations do the former,
and which do the later? Any pointers are very welcome.

Regards,   Martin.

At 00/07/27 14:30 -0700, Kevin Regan wrote:

>I have no access to the XML processor.  My library receives DOM Document
>and Element objects when creating the signature.  When verifying the
>Signature a deligate to the user to find and parse the URI.  I'm not
>sure I totally understand the discussion that had taken place, but
>I would say that I have no way of distinguishing which parts of
>the source came from external entities, and forcing the user to
>structure the DOM subtree that I am signing in a particular way is
>a big no no.  Currently, the only thing that my library requires
>is that the user hand me a DOM Document or Element that has been
>parsed with a validating parser (with ignorable whitespace not
>included).

Received on Friday, 28 July 2000 18:56:31 UTC