- From: Joseph Reagle <reagle@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 07:33:26 -0500
- To: "Pae Choi" <paechoi@earthlink.net>, <xml-encryption@w3.org>
On Wednesday 20 November 2002 03:16 am, Pae Choi wrote: > I have a question in encrypting the "entire XML document." Say we > have an XML document as follows: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <PatientInfo> > <Patient> > </Patient> > </PatientInfo> > > Should we encrypt the entire document literally beginning from the > XMLDecl, "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>", or exclude that. It's up to you. When you are encrypting the document it's merely a bag of octets with a media-type like any other. Whether "<?xml ...>" needs to be the first line is defined by the xml media type and specification -- and it doesn't require the declaration.
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