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Subject: RE: [wss] Proposed text on C14N
> The application might not care about the tag, but only about > the text("foo"). Then the application can use an XPath transform to get just the text node(s) in cares about. > If the application cares about the tag, then the > original message should have contained > > <i:innermost xmlns:i="foo.com" ID="foo">foo</i:innermost> This would require applications to rewrite their documents so that any possible subset that someone might ever want to sign has all the necessary namespace declarations. That imposes an impossible burden on anyone creating an XML document, and on anyone signing any XML content. You might find it worthwhile to skim through the XML DSIG requirements document, http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-requirements, as well. /r$ -- Rich Salz Chief Security Architect DataPower Technology http://www.datapower.com XS40 XML Security Gateway http://www.datapower.com/products/xs40.html XML Security Overview http://www.datapower.com/xmldev/xmlsecurity.html
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