- From: Amir Herzberg <AMIR@newgenpay.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 12:54:13 +0300
- To: "Xml Encrypt (E-mail)" <xml-encryption@w3.org>
Hi all,
In message
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-ietf-xmldsig/2001JulSep/0165.html,
Joseph adopted a minor modification I suggested to the `shorthand`
high-level description of DSIG appearing in the spec. I now looked more
carefully also at the `shorthand` which Don used to provide high-level
description of XML Encrypt object.
Let me offer some new text to describe the shorthand and a slightly improved
shorthand version, to be consistent btw DSIG and XML Encrypt and more well
defined.
We show below, in a simplified, `shorthand` notation, the structure of XML
Encryption. Elements appear zero or more times if followed by "*", zero or
once if followed by "?" and once or more if followed by "+". When not
followed by a symbol, elements appear exactly once. Attributes were removed,
as well as the contents and end tag of some elements. The `wildcard`
character `*` is used instead of an element name to denote an arbitrary
element.
<EncryptedData>
<EncryptionMethod/>?
<ds:KeyInfo>
<EncryptedKey>?
<AgreementMethod>?
<ds:KeyName>?
<ds:RetrivalMethod>?
<ds:*>?
</ds:KeyInfo>?
<CipherData>
<CipherValue/>?
<CipherReference>?
<DigestMethod>?
<DigestValue>?
</CipherData>
</EncryptedData>
Best regards,
Amir Herzberg
CTO, NewGenPay Inc.
http://www.newgenpay.com/Amir/Herzberg.htm
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