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Re: Genx c14n?


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At 9:59 AM -0800 1/26/04, Tim Bray wrote:

>Q: Should genx produce canonical XML output?
>
>I've worked on a couple projects in recent months where the XML 
>messages would sometimes or always need to be signed, and I'm 
>developing the general feeling that the world holds a *lot* of dsig 
>technology; in private correspondence with some folks here I've 
>heard horror stories about what people do to get canonical XML: 
>parse, load into DOM, reserialize (a horror story in a high-volume 
>app).

Yes. The obvious solution here is to move to a streaming 
canonicalizer. I don't know if any such exist. Probably wouldn't be 
hard to write one though.

  So I had the impression that if genx produced canonical XML that 
would be A Good Thing particularly if the cost was low.  The idea 
doesn't seem to be getting much of a welcome here.
>

I think the obvious solution is to add a function that turns 
canonicalization on or off, with the default being on. Not having 
done serious work in C for almost ten years, I won't presume to say 
what that function should look like. This does impose some burden on 
implementers but no more than just allowing it to be on. Canonical 
output is much harder to implement than non-canonical output.

However, if you really want a lightweight, 80/20 API maybe you should 
simply leave canonicalization to special purpose tools.
-- 

   Elliotte Rusty Harold
   elharo@m...
   Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
   http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA

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