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   Re: [xml-dev] Rich & Elliotte were right, I was wrong

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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
>
>  
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Tim Bray [mailto:tbray@textuality.com]
>>Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 10:31 PM
>>To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org DEV
>>Subject: [xml-dev] Rich & Elliotte were right, I was wrong
>>
>>Canonicalizing XML is hard!  -Tim
>>    
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