[ogsa-wg] node-set serialization

[Hiro Kishimoto]

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Hiro Kishimoto

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:24:04 -0600 (CST)
To: ogsa-wg at gridforum.org
Subject: node-set serialization
From: Takuya Mori <moritaku at mwc.biglobe.ne.jp>

Folks,

Just for your information.

The XML-Signature spec. defines its node-set serialization as follows: (it just
referes to Canonical XML specification.
                     <http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xml-c14n-20010315>)

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4.3.3.2 The Reference Processing Model
<http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core/#sec-ReferenceProcessingModel>

The data-type of the result of URI dereferencing or subsequent 
Transforms is either an octet stream or an XPath node-set.

The Transforms specified in this document are defined with respect to 
the input they require. The following is the default signature 
application behavior:

* If the data object is an octet stream and the next transform 
  requires a node-set, the signature application MUST attempt to parse 
  the octets yielding the required node-set via [XML] well-formed 
  processing.

* If the data object is a node-set and the next transform requires 
  octets, the signature application MUST attempt to convert the 
  node-set to an octet stream using Canonical XML [XML-C14N].
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Hope it helps,
Takuya