Will Norris wrote on 2009-12-12:
> oops, also meant to clarify this last point. My XPath is rusty, but
you're
> saying that an XPath query containing only a single element ID reference
> excludes comment nodes?
No. That syntax isn't an XPath query, it's a same-document URI reference.
(This is 1.1, but it's the same text as the original spec.)
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-xmldsig-core1-20090730/#sec-Same-Document
> I couldn't find anything to that effect in the
> XPath spec, but that doesn't mean much. I'm just curious why this syntax
> automatically drops comment nodes.
Basically because c14n over a node set doesn't strip comments automatically,
so using a "no comments" c14n algorithm would end up including comments.
It's a bug in the specs that they hacked around in a rather dumb way.
-- Scott
