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Re: Normalizing and signing XML -- Xoxa

• From: Arjun Ray <arjun.ray@verizon.net>
• To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
• Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2015 18:36:03 -0400

On Wed, 27 May 2015 15:32:44 -0400, "G. Ken Holman"
<gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com> wrote:

| >I've expanded on this in a blog-post at <http://text.nxg.me.uk/2015/b65m>.
| 
| Your "normalization" looks a lot like James Clark's NSGMLS output ... 

Canonicalization was made unnecessarily difficult by the failure to
keep it simple.  Or maybe it was a case of NIH.  A simpler c14n
procedure - derived from previous work - could also have addressed
Norman's isue, I think.

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/html-tidy/2000JulSep/0192.html

Despite Dan Connolly's backing, the "comment" - given its fate, let's
not call it a "constructive proposal" -  on the XML c14n draft was, as
expected, entirely ignored.