Question about iop test of c14n

["raul-info@r-bg.com" <ra...@r-bg.com>]

Hi,
    I'm refacotoring the c14n and i see that i can get some minor 
speed-ups, but I have found something strange. It is this vector correct?
xml-security/data/interop/c14n/Y4/c14n-24.txt

It isn't a valid xml file, I'm missing something?

Perhaps i need to read better the recomendation. But any explanation is 
good.

Re: Question about iop test of c14n

[Berin Lautenbach <be...@wingsofhermes.org>]

One of the really cool things about c14n is it doesn't necessarily 
result in valid XML <GRIN>.

C14n takes as an input a node-set, which may not be a complete XML 
document.  That means you can use it to canonicalise only the data in 
the document that you are interested in signing.

As an example - if an XPath expression is used in a transform that 
selects only the attribute nodes of an input document, and that 
resultant node-set is passed to c14n, then the output of the 
canonicaliser will be only the attribute nodes.

Cheers,
	Berin

raul-info@r-bg.com wrote:
> Hi,
>    I'm refacotoring the c14n and i see that i can get some minor 
> speed-ups, but I have found something strange. It is this vector correct?
> xml-security/data/interop/c14n/Y4/c14n-24.txt
> 
> It isn't a valid xml file, I'm missing something?
> 
> Perhaps i need to read better the recomendation. But any explanation is 
> good.
> 
> 
> 
>