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Re: Rich & Elliotte were right, I was wrong

• To: Derek Denny-Brown <derekdb@m...>
• Subject: Re: Rich & Elliotte were right, I was wrong
• From: Dennis Sosnoski <dms@s...>
• Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 12:35:42 -0800
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This suggests to me that XML DSig is basically a questionable idea. Why 
the obsession with text? It seems like doing this at the Infoset level 
would be much simpler (and much more efficient).

  - Dennis

Derek Denny-Brown wrote:

>Worse... try and do it efficiently, especially in documents which
>include DTDs.  The cost of normalizing attribute values, as well as
>sorting attributes comes up every time I talk with people investigating
>use Xml DSig.  I can't wait for people to ask for WXS normalization.
>
>-derek
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Tim Bray [mailto:tbray@t...]
>>Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 10:31 PM
>>To: xml-dev@l... DEV
>>Subject:  Rich & Elliotte were right, I was wrong
>>
>>Canonicalizing XML is hard!  -Tim
>>    
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