On Dec 12, 2009, at 12:37 PM, Scott Cantor wrote:
> 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.
wow, yeah that is kinda ugly. So did my proposed changes in the other email look okay?
-will
