Re: [ubl-security] UBL-XAdES-Profile 1.0-RC1

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

At 2010-08-11 17:14 -0400, I wrote:
>(9) - line 502:  I still *strongly* disagree with labelling the 
>XPath address you have on lines 504-506 with the XPath 
>Recommendation URI because the "here()" function is *not* part of 
>XPath ... but you've seen my other posts about this ... I will try 
>later today to find another example of a signature application that 
>uses this combination of address and URI ... it just seems so 
>*wrong* to me (but perhaps because I was the founding chairman of 
>the XSLT/XPath Conformance Committee and no-one else is going to 
>care, so it could just be me and I accept that ... I'll just keep 
>looking for justification *not* to use it as you have)

I am prepared now to stand down on my objection to this.  I note that 
the digital signature committee itself is ambiguous in this 
regard:  it cites XPath when it uses a valid XPath address, but it 
doesn't cite anything when it uses the invalid XPath address:

    http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core/#sec-XPath

So, if the committee got it wrong in the first place, I see no way we 
can do it more correctly (if I've understood the situation) and still 
be considered "conformant".

. . . . . . . . .  Ken


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