Re: On the ordering of header entries from Rich Salz on 2001-05-28 (xml-dist-app@w3.org from May 2001)

From: Rich Salz <rsalz@zolera.com>
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 09:47:12 -0400
To: Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>
CC: xml-dist-app@w3.org
Message-ID: <3B1256E0.427A40A1@zolera.com>

> sign a subset of the blocks and the signing block can record the ordering.
> So you still don't need to have a fixed order.

That's perhaps possible, but certainly seems well beyond the current
state of the art for XMLDSIG today, and in the near future.  I could
well be wrong, but you can you show write an XPATH expression that does
ordering?  (XPATH is the only transform defined for XMLDSIG today.)
	/r$

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